cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48234252
With the worldwide wave of social media bans on major platforms aka digital verification, I wonder if we’ll see an influx of people to the Fediverse?
🤞🤞🤞 here is hoping <3
Currently not looking too good… We have a pretty constant 1 million active users. Despite all the previous enshittification of mainstream social media. But yeah, that’s the spirit 👍
million
Let’s continue to do our best to promote, over time people will find the way :))
And produce good content. Our small userbase is slowly building its own culture. We have the potentiel to let exist all the content that cannot survive the pressure of the algorithme.
building its own culture
Sometimes I see users recycle old overused jokes in the comment section.
Like come on. This is a different place. We don’t want to become a copy of Reddit.
There was a reason I said “slowly” before.
I’m actually afraid the opposite might actually happen.
if users (especially new potential users to the Fediverse.) find that social media requires them to id verifiy most of them will probably just either stick to a narrow smaller few of sites they know people use, or they’l obsolete themselves from the social media aspects of the internet entirely.
And I’m afraid of the opposite: that most will just upload their IDs everywhere and allow “you don’t have to worry if you have nothing to hide” to become accepted stance
Doubtful - Lemmy’s userbase continues to shrink or at best hold steady, and while PieFed continues to keep doubling in size, its total subscriber count remains a moderate fraction of Lemmy’s.
On the other hand, the tools keep getting better - excruciatingly slowly, but consistently nonetheless.
