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PabloDiscobar ,
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Have you ever been on a social network under construction? The first people joining are the geeks who talk about geek stuff and the geek stuff now is the fediverse and microservers. It has always been like this.

We don't need anything. We discuss based on interests. Talking for filling blank space is what led reddit to what it has become.

Don't be in such a hurry to see your network filled with people talking for the sake of talking. We will come to this point and this will be the moment when we leave.

danhakimi OP ,

Have you ever been on a social network under construction? The first people joining are the geeks who talk about geek stuff and the geek stuff now is the fediverse and microservers. It has always been like this.

The fediverse has been like this for years. For... What, a decade? It did not take that long for Reddit users to start talking about their hobbies. I remember a lively community for my undergrad school where people discussed events, classes, student government, the schools' governance structure, all sorts of shit, that was in... 2012? Very active for a very small niche. Much more active then than /m/nyc is now. Much, much, much more active.

I'm not in a hurry. My mastodon account is six years old, and there's still nobody there talking about anything, I have found about 12 accounts I wanted to follow — half of them are software projects or software freedom organizations, and half of them are inactive. I go there, put up a post, none of my ~300 followers see it, because none of them check Mastodon, because it's a complete ghost town.

I've been extremely patient. It's about damn time the fediverse started to happen.

nicetriangle ,
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    danhakimi OP ,

    The fediverse has gone from 0 to 0.4 in the last ~6 months. Again, the fashion communities still don't exist. The cooking communities are still pretty fucking small. There are not enough animal gifs. People who come here see it as empty, see people all discussing the same narrow range of topics, and leave. There's nobody to follow on Mastodon. I've been on Mastodon, specifically, for over six years. I got really excited when people started talking about it on Twitter, but I still haven't found more than a dozen accounts, and I still have zero engagement, because the fediverse still barely exists.

    nicetriangle ,
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    danhakimi OP ,

    I'm posting on the existing fashion communities I've found. I've posted plenty about fashion on mastodon as well. It takes more than one person actually doing these things. So here I am, constructively encouraging people who care about the fediverse to use it. I'm sorry you don't appreciate that.

    PabloDiscobar ,
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    What you should appreciate is the number of argumented answers you had to your question with so few one liners made of "Dan pleeease". Followed by the inevitable clickbait articles. This will probably not last.

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