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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/494473
Compared against the predominant incumbent social media platforms, the fediverse is very small.
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I surprised Threads, LinkedIn and Snapchat have that many
What about Pinterest? Laugh all you want but they have more users than Twitter and healthy growth, to the point where they may eventually overtake Reddit.
God I hate Pinterest.
Not only do they steal pictures in bad quality from other sites and write their website in such a way to always come out on top of search results, it also takes multiple seconds to close the webpage.
Great graphic and thank you for sharing.
Now let's filter out bots, low quality trolls, NPCs, and content that isn't easily searchable. It's definitely an interesting diagram, and, though it is fascinating, I think its a 1 dimensional view of the social space.
I prefer to engage around ideas and topics, rather than specific users or content producers, so having a good search and topic based boards or groups immediately puts a site miles ahead for me. Reddit and Lemmy excel at this, but some of the others leave a lot to be desired. As someone who used FB to organize and manage a topic based social group in real life, with a Facebook group of 1000+ participants, FB has some good groups, but the interface is absolute rubbish and I would migrate to just about anything else if I could get people to move.
I guess my point is that we lump these together as "social media", but that's a broad category that holds some very distinct subcategories that excel at very different things.
I'd be interested to see how different it would look if we only counted average active daily users
Facebook has like many thousands or even hundreds of thousands really dead accounts ( of dead people ), some of those accounts are just Oculus accounts as they got forced to create a facebook account, but i think those are very low in the hundreds or with low probability in the thousands.
LinkedIn isnt really a social network for me, its rather you state your past work and current work only then to get invited to 6 sessions of coding reviews.
Twitch is a entertainment platform ( like youtube ), not social media.
🤨 when did Reddit overtake Twitter? Reddit used to be a niche destination that you’d barely see it in comparison to the other big name sites.
Surprised a boring platform like LinkedIn has that many users.
Fuck LinkedIn. It's just gross, my feed is just full of shilling.
Slowly and steadily. This platform has potential.
basically im very smol
We’re on the map!
I wonder how many users Matrix has?
Federated instances could be counted. Non-federated like govermental or company ones can't. So yeah, I would say 3.