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As far as can be counted, the user count of just mastodon users, has surpassed six million [1]. > No one uses these platforms. Six million is not no-one. It's
by berkes 4y ago
As far as can be counted, the user count of just mastodon users, has surpassed six million [1].
> 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/109297455066070237 https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount/10929745506607...
- scrollaway 4y agoIt’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.
- dane-pgp 4y ago> the user count of just mastodon users, has surpassed six million That must make the users of Gab hate them even more...
- rsynnott 4y agoIt'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.