> people will eventually stop using proprietary social media applications I have ~280 followers on the Instagram with reasonable engagement on my photos[1] and

> people will eventually stop using proprietary social media applications I have ~280 followers on the Instagram with reasonable engagement on my photos[1] and -maybe- 10 on the Fediverse with basically zero engagement. People won't stop using the proprietary apps until there's a decent amount of the people they know on the alternatives (which, to be fair, is definitely burgeoning this week.) [1] A fair few from a hashtag which, correct me if I'm wrong, don't really work the same way on the Fediverse - you can't just follow #donkeys and get an aggregation of posts with that hashtag; only the ones from a particular server.