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@J12t Probably too wordy, but close enough. * It's not, but again it kinda is? 7 comments
@J12t Fair question, I guess it depends on how Threads is counted amongst this, as Fediverse adjacent or not, but I think this still holds true with a qualifier or two. The various posters of the #fediverse stats seemed to indicate the growth was a) significant and b) real, so ... close enough for a high level statement.  @drimplausible Well, I don't know, for example, Meta as a whole in their earnings report just reported record MAUs across all of their products. I would expect that most Threads users were existing Instagram users, so they don't count as incremental MAUs, and so I would expect that user growth for Meta products was larger somewhere else than for Threads. @drimplausible "allows greater organization control of your presence and connections online" -- what kind of control specifically in terms of features? Who wants it? And why do they want it? And why do they want it now? @J12t Hmm, I think there was a typo there, as I meant "organizational control", but still. This would involve greater control in terms of participation, who you can connect with, and who can access and engage with your "space" and content, via blocking, defederating, and your relation to the underlying server. There may still be barriers (ie depending on who your host is, or where it is located), but there are more options than exist with the walled gardens. @drimplausible "Re-imagining of the original purpose and potential of the internet" -- who wants to re-imagine that, and why does it matter to them? After all, nobody re-imagines the original purpose of say, the road system (horses, wagons, troops on foot movements) (I'm not disagreeing, I'm just trying to make the reasoning explicit.) @J12t It's a fair question. In my mind's eye the re-imagineers are the creators, contributors, and early adopters of the Fediverse. While I was conducting the research for the most recent episode of the podcast, I was struck with how many parallels there were between the Fediverse and the internet of the 80s and 90s. There's a strong degree of overlap here as well, with personalities I witnessed via NNTP back in the mid 90s to now. |
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@drimplausible Why is it "the fastest growing segment of the internet" (is that true? Are there numbers?) and why is it "posed for explosive growth"?