Libre Office has 10k followers on Mastodon

Re:Libre Office has 10k followers on Mastodon by Cyberdog on Monday September 12, 2022 @02:54PM (#32815069)

But they do not have 10k followers on the Fosstodon instance; that doesn't really make sense unless you were awkwardly counting only followers from other users of that instance. They have 10k followers on the whole network. At any rate, it's still conflating the software with one instance that is running it.

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Re:Libre Office has 10k followers on Mastodon by m-p-3 on Monday September 12, 2022 @05:11PM (#32817043)

So? The whole idea of the fediverse is to be able to follow and communicate no matter where your account resides. My account is on mastodon.social and I follow it, why wouldn't that count?

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Re:Libre Office has 10k followers on Mastodon by Cyberdog on Monday September 12, 2022 @05:51PM (#32817497)

Yes, that's my point. Mastodon is just a piece of software which interacts with the network that makes that cross-instance interaction pssible. It is not the network itself. But so many people conflate the two.

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Re:Libre Office has 10k followers on Mastodon by m-p-3 on Monday September 12, 2022 @09:49PM (#32819855)

On the other hand, more people know about Mastodon than the Fediverse/ActivityPub.

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Re:Libre Office has 10k followers on Mastodon by rakoo on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @06:25AM (#32822485)

So it's our job to use the correct words and tell people what we're really talking about.

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