7,601,724 accounts
+2,635 in the last hour
+57,784 in the last day
+495,181 in the last week
There is no apparent end to the influx of users, and also thank-goodness of servers and communities.
I hear that Cohost and Hive and Tumblr are also still onboarding as fast as they can.
#Hive is just another overlord, a capital-owned data-broker. The capital-owned media are promoting it heavily as you'd expect. They terms seem to explicitly say they will sell you out.
#Cohost is at least owned by a charity, but that's still a single entity in control of the thing. Will they ever federate or interoperate? Who knows. It's not up to you. They hope to make money and give it to the highest value posters, and so rank everything by how important people are.
#Tumblr are owned by a weird distributed company, that are currently good guys as far as I can tell. Wordpress folks. They tell us they are thinking of federating and inter-operating as soon as they can, but are busy on-boarding right now.
#Mastodon / The-Fediverse is getting the freaks and the geeks and the queers and weirdos.
My people.
Where we lead, the masses end up following. Though I dunno if we should let them this time really.
Also Tumblr has a lot of weirdos too actually.
@pre @ceoln @mastodonusercount
... Meanwhile Tumblr is joining ActivityPub.
I wonder if that's just a desperate attempt to become relevant again?
Or maybe importing content from the fediverse to display ad's alongside it?
I tend to give #tumblr more of a pass, but perhaps just for nostalgia reasons; I think of them as disorganized weirdos more than gross manipulators. Their approach to monetization and so on seems to have been to basically do parody implementations, which I like :P
@ceoln @humbird0 @pre @mastodonusercount
Even though they're owned by Yahoo now?
@BrionS @ceoln @humbird0 @mastodonusercount
Yahoo haven't owned it since they sold it in 2019 to Automattic, the guys who run Wordpress too.
@pre @ceoln @humbird0 @mastodonusercount oh, my mistake. Thank you for the correction.
@pre @ceoln @mastodonusercount
I did attempt to search for Post, not knowing exactly what it was called. First tried post.com which is not correct. Then a search for 'post app' turned up so SO many unrelated results. Finally searched Mastodon for #postNews and found someone who actually linked to post.news.
Terrible experience just trying to find it, then I'm adjusted with their front page (white + light blue + small text doesn't work for me).
That's a big #nope from me.
@pre @ceoln @mastodonusercount
That's a damn good point:
""Post" is a terrible completely un-googleable name. Can you imaging searching for "social media, post" and getting anything sane?"
I've always favoured the use of the word post but you've thrown me a spanner.
@stackerlee @ceoln @mastodonusercount
The word "post" to refer to an individual note is fine.
It's when you name your website after it's tricky.
@ceoln @mastodonusercount
I new there was another one I forgot.
I like that #postnews is quite similar to instances with names like #poast on Fedi which are pretty much all toxic and terrible shitposting instances.
"Post" is a terrible completely un-googleable name. Can you imaging searching for "social media, post" and getting anything sane?
They are owned by billionaries who intend to sell your eyeballs, and maybe share that with their top-posters as far as I can tell.
They are unlikely to federate, and seem to desire to lock you in so they can farm you like all the other people-farmers on the internet.