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jersan@lemmy.whynotdrs.org to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)

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Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)

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jersan@lemmy.whynotdrs.org to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/494473

Compared against the predominant incumbent social media platforms, the fediverse is very small.

information sources:

  • List of social platforms with at least 100 million active users - Wikipedia
  • Fediverse Observer
  • De_Narm@lemmy.world
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    As always, you guys are way too fixated on size.

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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      Thing is, you have to measure from the user base on the underside, this graphic obviously uses the wrong method.

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        Meh. Not like there are shareholders to appraise of growth…

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          Here too there are misconceptions!

          What’s important are the hard numbers, soft metrics like user count are misleading! Some may look large at first, but hardly grow with higher engagement, while in others engagement greatly increases the size.

          • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net
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            I appreciate your punnage (if that’s the right word)

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Lemmy alone creates more content that I care about. This is fine.

      • Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world
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        Not always

        Lemmy still doesn’t create enough content that I want

        But I try to use lemmy more anyways

        Hopefully more people will use lemmy more

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      It’s not the size of the ship, it’s the motion of the ocean.

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        Yeah, and let me tell you… Facebook’s motion does nothin for me, as big as it is…

      • cmbabul@lemmy.world
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        That’s true but it does take a long time to get to England in a row boat

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      Yes. Quality is the key thing about fediverse. Also - size doesn’t mean everything. Black holes are small, but mighty. Lemmy sucks most of my spare time already.

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        My take away from this is lemmy is so good it’s actually a gravitational singularity pretending to be a social network 

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      Yeah technique is really important too.

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      So is my wife

    • unhappy_grapefruit 2@lemmy.world
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      I wasn’t fixated on size when I met your mom

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