Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)
Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)
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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There's some merit to whether those daily active accounts are people, and the quality of the folks engaged as those accounts.
Twitter has more users, and a lot of static too, like people posting pictures of their paninis. I'm also sure there's a large percentage of automated/bot accounts on Twitter; they're active, but not posting anything you'll care about. Same goes for Facebook and Reddit.... There's more but I'll stop there. I'm sure you all get the picture.
Fact is, you can have 5 billion daily active user accounts, and still have very little content anyone cares about. A nontrivial number of posts are news updates either from media outlets or business accounts/companies that are simply a mass posted and shortened version of some PR message or something with a link to the information. Simply bringing the information to people where they are, no matter how few on Twitter or FB are actually reading what they post.
I feel like Lemmy has a lot of content because the majority of accounts are real people, so there's a better capability for discussion. It may be fewer overall people, by comparison, but it is, in many ways, more valuable and entertaining.
IDK, I'm just some guy.
I see a lot of posts that are bot reposts with zero engagement. Maybe I need to find a better instance.
start blocking users and communities you don't care about, or you can auto-ignore bot users in your profile; both options should help you out quickly.
My friends hate the need to do this. It does just take a second to click into community / instance and block it and you won't be bothered again but a lot of people can't be bothered with that one second even and would rather have something simpler unfortunately
I'm on Lemmy.ca, and the "all" view shows all kinds of various instances. Most commonly Lemmy.world but others too.
It's all federated. Unless your instance is defederated then you should have access to everything that Lemmy has to offer. You just need to find how to access it.