@Gargron
50٪ increase... not too shabby

@Gargron and those 1.8m will soon be able to follow any of those 70m (hopefully)

@Gargron 🥂👏🏻

@Gargron And it's not really a contest, since here there are no investors or advertisers to please with huge continual growth.

@Gargron It's not quantity, but quality that matters. 😉

@Gargron Ayee its progress! If people can join and leave freely then its a better platform than being chained to one

@Gargron and we are loving it 💗

@Gargron

And not a single Kardashian among them, which is one of the things I appreciate about this place. ❤️

and that SEVENTY MILLION ACCOUNTS are entering the fediverse @Gargron

@Gargron

I'm sending you a song of brotherhood in my own language. The story of two fishermen, Greek and Turkish.
This is how universal culture will be established.

https://youtu.be/NKskvwx8sNw

@Gargron Indeed

@Gargron everyone wants a piece of mastodon. crawling to it like a pack of rats. it'd be enough make you sick if not for the truth that they deserve to be force-fed short form text posts. theyre that type of people

@Gargron look, 1.8 million or 1.2 million even is enough to keep the species alive after the 70 million just mutually annihilate. We’re good. 🤣

@Gargron quality, not quantity! I love the quality of interactions here and people’s attitude. Keep up the good work and congratulations! 🎉

@Gargron well, when you can only sign in with an account from a service that's been a mainstay in social media for 15 years, that's what happens. They cheated, I refuse to make an #instagram account because its just not what I'm looking for. I wanted to try out #Threads, but couldn't because of this crappy decision.

@Gargron Pretty soon Mark Zuckerberg is going to say he wants to buy Mastodon, just like the way he did with Instagram.

@Gargron You and Mark can both thank Elon.

@Gargron Team Eugen! 💙

@Gargron todo @circulovicioso

@Gargron less people on ̶P̶a̶r̶l̶e̶r̶ I mean Twitter is always good for the world.

@Gargron That's just 70M users signed up. I'm sure a *very* low percentage of those signed up will stay active after the initial sugar rush, especially once the non-celebrities/influencers discover how invisible they are there (it's worse in that respect than Twitter ever was).

It's just plain better here in the Fediverse.

@Gargron and that’s just the actives. Way more have registered (over 13M, if @mastodonusercount can be trusted). Not all of those 70M will remain active there.

@Gargron For a network that isn’t being actively promoted by billionaires, this isn’t bad. Thank you for all your hard work.

@Gargron Fediverse hive mind: Check my tired-brain main: a 50% increase?

@Gargron I feel like Threads and Mastodon have two different targets in a way. Remember that their goal is to integrate with everyone through ActivityPub, so we all win in the end.

And be proud of the work y'all are doing, too!

@Gargron I don't need 70M users to have fun in Fediverse.

@Gargron Quality > Quantity 😼

@Gargron let's not forget that Thread's meteoric rise in the "ratings" was partially due to everyone on Instagram automagically having an account on Threads which counted to the "total"

@Gargron thankful for @Mastodon

@Gargron I am brand new here!

@Gargron congratulations!

@Gargron

Agreed. I’ve been on Facebook, twitter and TikTok. Gave them all up because of the nastiness that I didn’t need in my head.

Mastodon is the one for me. The number of users isn’t a measurement of quality.

@Gargron slow and steady wins the race. Except this isn’t a race, and we are way better here at the stands.

@Gargron the best part? The people who joined aren't all tech nuts and programmers so I'm smart enough to understand them

@Gargron

@Gargron Serious question — is growth a priority or just a nice thing if it happens? I could see arguments for Mastodon ever achieving any kind of mainstream popularity being a non-goal.

@Gargron
"Subscribe to tags."
Everyone: OOooooooh

@Gargron Life is Marathon not a Sprint 👍

@Gargron There's a lot of ways Mastodon needs to get easier and more polished, eg a DHT to find user addresses. But I'll rather have this raw diamond than be a pawn in Zucc's grace.

@Gargron I think sustained organic growth is the best way.

@Gargron
I think #Mastodon will be a game changer once the #Fediverse is recognised as the way fwd in social media and other apps such as #Threads adopt the #ActivityPub protocol. Silo apps such as #Twitter will die a slow death.

@Gargron it's not about the population, it's about the conversations.

@Gargron

The platforms are both worthwhile and complementary. I hope they both find their place...

@Gargron

It is still a very good and nice number.

@Gargron nice i getting my NOC team on here also since i am the only linux chad they know lol
#mastodon #linux

@Gargron 👏

@Gargron yay and you can't wait to sell out a significant % of those new users to Facebook and/or the next for-profit nightmare corporation that comes along and offers you cash and NDRs.

How fortunate we are!

@Gargron aah

@Gargron
It wouldn't work if those would be 70M anyways 😆

@Gargron wow

@Gargron we don’t have to be the town square. A cool corner coffee shop for grown folks works just fine

@Gargron is this on all instances or just for mastodon.social?

@Gargron just joined. Happy to be here.

@Gargron

Congratulation Eugen!
Thank you for your pioneering work.

For me, being on Mastodon feels like relaxing in an anti-capitalist resort.
Here I can recuperate my mind communicating with like-minded people and then go back to face our confused society again.
I love it here and I don't care about THREADS as long as they do not attack our resort.
😘 🙏

@Gargron I signed up for Threads, and doing so prompted me to finally stop procrastinating on trying out Mastodon, too. Doesn't hurt to try different things to see what sticks.

@Gargron most of those new mastodon users are unlikely to be brands or influencers which is all that threads seems to be right now. I’ll stay here.

@Gargron Slow and steady [s]wins the race[/s] lets the instances scale.

@Gargron it’s definitely something great! I was never on twitter, but I believe in the fediverse, so I wanted to be here!

@Gargron

@Gargron that explains the server strain.

@Gargron That's what you get when you enable quote-post functionality!

@Gargron That’s fantastic 👏🥳
And it’s not manipulating the user base from another platform to gain/ keep members!

@Gargron A 50% increase in a week is wonderful!
And the community here is fantastic 🥰

@Gargron those others had a huge head start. this is building from scratch. And we love it 🌻🥰

@Gargron 50% increase is nothing to sneeze at. Good job!

@Gargron it is definitely something

@Gargron Gut gemacht, Mann!

Ich möchte Teil Ihres Teams sein.

@Gargron

I’ve learned so much more than I could have on other platforms already. So happy to have learned about fediverse and Mastadon.

@Gargron Mastodon has a built in user base of 0 basically so that’s a total gain of 1.6M, Instagram has a built-in user base of like 800M, so Threads has 730 Million people who aren’t on it yet. So if you think about it one way, more people will choose not to use Threads than will choose to join Mastodon.

If my math checks out that’s a good thing.

@Gargron is that just the one instance

@Gargron is a good thing.

In your blog you wrote a really sensitive post about Threads and Mastodon.

I want to keep the positivism, and I hope that the user base will become part of the Fediverse and perhaps, even if it is just a fraction, will move to Mastodon and similar options.

@Gargron Organic Growth

@Gargron
'Slow and steady wins the race" last time I heard :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

@Gargron Threads looks really boring!

@Gargron I know I’ve asked this before and I’m not questioning the number, but how do you count active users since Mastodon is decentralized?

@Gargron that is a lot. Is the bird app dying yet again

@Gargron it's definitely a sign that more and more people want to have a just and welcoming space for sharing ideas without being intoxicated with FOMO of social media.

@Gargron It's 0.6M real users instead of 70M fake ones.

@Gargron
@mariyadelano

Quality over quantity.

@Gargron just got a new user 🙌🙌

@Gargron I would much rather this slow, effective growth that is creating a good community rather than a rapid explosion of growth that is resulting in a very asinine feed from what I've heard.

@Gargron I guess another thing, is keeping 70M users is a lot harder of a problem for a single actor. Lets see how it plays out.

@Gargron That's what I prefer sustainable, incremental growth of decentralized social media. The primary goal for the Fediverse is to create a space where people can talk and share their interests without algorithms getting in the way. We aren't here to make those corpo's rich AF...We want the community that helps tie people together and get them talking.

@Gargron where are all those people???

@Gargron also, quantity of users is only a weak surrogate for success. More and more media channels, companies and interesting/productive individual accounts show up, wich is ways more important to me than numbers.

@Gargron quality > quantity 🙃

@Gargron I might go and tweet that

@Gargron 70 million new users probably would've broken a few things.

This is the place to be. @Gargron

@Gargron I don't think Meta gained 70M users. Sure most were on Instagram already.

@Gargron i'm one of them, greet me! :welp:

@Gargron I wish people were flocking to Mastodon instead of Threads, honestly, but at least people are flocking to Lemmy and kbin after Reddit decided to shoot themselves in the foot.

@Gargron
Good stuff 👌

@Gargron awesome to #Mastodon it growing! Thanks for all your awesome work.

@Gargron Of that 70 million, many will have popped by to look, or to grab their username, and immediately became inactive.

@Gargron

Slow but steady wins the race!