For some weird reason, Mastodon and the Fediverse continues to grow. New instances appear all the time without caring about money. Many do it for free! Amazing isn't it? No incentive whatsoever except to shitpost.
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So, you like comunism. Fine. Do it for free.
I think thats growing based on name recognition, network effect and desire to get away from the big platforms. But when users realize that the operators of an instance can rug them, they'll be looking around for the next thing again.
OK, again....Mastodon and the Fediverse continue to grow in instances and users and provides a better user experience.
What does Nostr have to offer? What good is owning your npub is everything sucks?
I'm here to see the cathedral get built and interact with the builders as they do it. Nsecs and relays seem like the much better approach compared to activitypub
You are right!
If Nostr wants to kick ass, do Nsecs and relays but everything else like Mastodon/Pleroma
Then, Nostr can be taken seriously .
Alex Gleason is doing this now for Nostr with Ditto/Soapbox and it's beautiful.
Ditto sis pretty cool. Needs packages for the popular home server/bitcoin node systems out there like nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct and nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll
How many users Mastadon has ?
It's probably difficult to count because of all the instance blocking going on but here are the numbers:
1 Million Daily Active Users
I feel like this has more to do with Threads than instance operators of the rest of the network