Re:EU Voice is the official ActivityPub microblogging platfo...
by scrollaway on Sunday November 06, 2022 @11:09AM
(#33494055)
It’s also not just users. Mastodon instances can have plenty of readers who never make an account.
Websites like Twitter often push hard to create an account but the 1:10 rule apply… if there’s 6 million users, there’s probably around 60 million readers.
Re:EU Voice is the official ActivityPub microblogging platfo...
by dane-pgp on Sunday November 06, 2022 @05:00PM
(#33497810)
> the user count of just mastodon users, has surpassed six million
That must make the users of Gab hate them even more...
Re:EU Voice is the official ActivityPub microblogging platfo...
by rsynnott on Sunday November 06, 2022 @06:12PM
(#33498594)
It's also notable how many journalists (and even news outlets; the Irish paper of record just created an account, say) are suddenly using Mastodon. Realistically, the target audience of EU twitter feeds is mostly journalists; very few normal people will follow any sort of government twitter feed, but journalists will. Government bodies tend to use Twitter as a sort of low latency press release mechanism, and Mastodon will do fine for that, should there be problems with Twitter.
> No one uses these platforms.
Six million is not no-one. It's relatively few, but absolutely a great number. I'm certain you'll have a hard time finding social networks with these amounts of users, that don't belong to one of the tech monopolies. Or with such numbers where the EU has no account or official presence.
[¹] https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount/10929745506607...