The latest governance report:
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The latest governance report:
2 million users in 2022.
10 million in 2024.
Mufos, think about that for a moment:
That's without a marketing department. That's without it being anyone's job to talk to the media and bring people here.
It's without....well, it's without capitalism.
It's literal organic growth, that mythological unicorn you've only heard about.
It's growth without capitalism. It's literal proof another world is possible. We don't need brands to thrive.
This server, the one I'm posting from, the original source of all my content?
No ads required.
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Oliphantom Menace on last edited by
I pay a small fortune, sure, ~$100/mo for 6 active users on Digital Ocean, because it's a mastodon server, and I wanted like 4 CPUs and good performance, and I wanted to have full server-level access, but if I was doing managed hosting with mastohost, and did not have server access I'd be paying a fraction of that. A tiny, tiny fraction. $5/mo kind of fraction.
Like you can literally seize the means of social media production and make your own. It's way easier than you think.
But the thing is? GTS is kind of better. Not in all the ways, but in terms of "built-in features that are perfectly suited to building an island network?" There's nothing better.
I mean, it's not fully featured, and you have to bring your own UI but you can run it yourself for $3.75/mo on 100% green energy. You can invite 2 or 3 of your closest friends and if they chip in $1 each, it will pay for itself.
I'm trying to tell you that social media exists that you can own where the posts you post are owned by you and literally it's impossible for anyone else to delete them. Sure, they can block your content from their server if they want, but your server and your social media content remains intact.
Where you are your own fuckin' moderator.
And in an island network, everyone agrees to four basic agreements or thereabouts, and off you go.
This is the power of islands. Tiny servers that we run that are democraticized. And an island doesn't fuck around with trying to figure out which servers to block.
Instead, the entirety of our concern becomes which servers to allow.
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The Nexus of Privacyreplied to Oliphantom Menace on last edited by
Although also, according to fedidb's stats: 9.5 million users in February 2023, 10.4 million today. So there was a huge spike in late 2022/early 2023 with the Twitter acquisition, a smaller spike in June/July 2024 (when Twitter put in rate limiting and Reddit declared war on their moderators) but since then things are fairly flat.
Also according to fedidb the number of monthly active users has been decreasing for the last year, and is now < 1 million. So fedi's literal organic growth is still somewhat mythological.
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to The Nexus of Privacy on last edited by
@thenexusofprivacy I feel like that also coincides with Bluesky getting out of invite-only mode and Threads opening up, so I can't be too surprised if investigation of alternatives like Mastodon dwindled a bit in the face of that.
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@johnb48 @oliphant Pretty much why I use honk. I only have to moderate myself. I'm an island of one. ️
I started on Google's GCP Always Free tier, moved to an old cell phone running @termux, then to a Raspberry Pi (2b, I think).
More than one tiny fediverse on-ramp out there, and it's all worth exploring.
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