I’m on Boost, but should probably look at Voyager.

I get that you’re using AI directly related to your point, but it’s still a lot of shitty AI spam.

Use it for your own research, but don’t foist that on us.

The other difference is that promoting more and more obscure, useless shit ruins your credibility for when you’re trying to get them to Lemmy or Signal or Mastodon.

Signal is an absolutely fine product and doesn’t need to be decentralized right now.

Maybe. But it’s probably more important to start with Lemmy than which app to use.

Their rationale was that SMS is not secure and having something not secure on their app was damaging.

Yeah, I don’t mind Pixelfed getting attention at all. It’s just that I don’t trust Forbes, and this article seems to want to muddy the waters.

No mention of Lemmy. Hardly a mention of Mastodon. The leading image is all the oligarch apps. I’m not impressed.

Doesn’t seem like a super reliable source. I just grabbed the first result I googled.

I got it from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1bg323c/oc_reddit_traffic_by_country_2024/

It lists worldpopulationreview.com on the image.

There this statista link which has similar numbers and sounds more detailed, but still doesn’t have sources available. Google’s AI points to statista.

So nothing definitive. But I certainly expect that most users are from the US.

I could see the numbers being a little different for Lemmy, but I don’t expect that they’re wildly different.

2024

My point was for people who are scared to leave Twitter. They don’t have to. They can just dip their toes in while still holding their Elon-themed blanket.

I understand that often you can’t just drop the platform where all the engagement is when your job is to promote something. However, you can still enable people who do want to make the switch.

I now have a dozen comments on Reddit in the last year, up from 3 an hour ago.

The thing about Mastodon for influencers is… you don’t even have to leave Twitter. Just post to both.

If enough people get into that habit, it makes the transition much easier for everyone.

It blows my mind that places like the transit systems that were on Twitter haven’t migrated over to their own Mastodon server. They’re not that hard to set up, and there’s so little risk when you just don’t accept public signups on your domain.

How much effort do you think Meta, Twitter, and Reddit put into getting open social media people to fight against themselves?

Yeah, I don’t expect it to scale well. Certainly not as well as Rust.

No, they’re not.

how the developers handle certain types of content

Doesn’t matter if you stay away from .ml.

the behavior of its creator

Kind of valid, but open source and open license negates a lot of that.

how the sotware itself handles users’ privacy.

You think anything else on the Fediverse is better? When you post something publicly, it’s public. Doesn’t really matter what the software does. If you don’t have End to End encryption, it’s not private.

You know, I would pick instances that aren’t federated with hexbear or Lemmygrad.

Usernames include the instance, @moseschrute@lemmy.world

Picking a default instance seems like the right approach.