@jerry It's as if #Mastodon and the #Fediverse are playing soccer and the media keep telling us how bad we are at baseball.
We don't want exponential growth. 12M people behaving (mostly) decently and with (mostly) effective moderation make a much better social network than 120M bots, trolls, corporate PR accounts, and conspiracy theorists.
@david_megginson we have about 1.2m active, at last count, but your point holds