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The main determinant of the stickiness of a social network is the network size, and having to click each icon to find this out is stupid when there are oceans o
by yborg 9y ago
The main determinant of the stickiness of a social network is the network size, and having to click each icon to find this out is stupid when there are oceans of space that could present this information on the main page.
That said, this is a sad commentary on open source social networks. The largest would appear to be Mastodon at ~1M 'accounts'. Facebook is what, ~2 billion active? if you want to believe their numbers.
- giancarlostoro 9y agoFacebook has a decade on these projects as well though. Also larger financial backing. These projects protocol (forget which ones) are based on an official w3c spec as well. So unlike Facebook these types of networks will be an official part of the web. Facebook can disappear one day but these sites will not go anywhere.
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- swerveonem 9y agoLet's not forget about diaspora.
- aquova 9y agoI expect Mastodon's numbers to sharply increase over the next few months, and I wouldn't be surprised if this month was by far their sharpest increase in users. The 'big' social medias have had over a decade head start, and by being centralized are more user-friendly. I've known about Mastodon for a while, but always wrote it off as "that weird Twitter clone". I've recently decided to try it again and turned my opinion around about it.
- captchasarehard 9y agoIf you're curious about these networks, it might help to keep an eye on the-federation.info project. That one was made to present numbers. Currently not all networks included, but they're working on it.