Why YSK:
Although politicians and journalists often treat it like major platform, or even the “digital town square,” X is fairly minor social media platform. The various Meta platforms (including Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger) have combined 10 billion monthly active users. X (Twitter) is about 5.5% that size. It trails behind not only the obvious giants like Meta, Google (YouTube) and TikTok (Douyin), but also well behind platforms that are exclusive to one country or region, like WeChat or Weibo, and behind “also-rans” like Snapchat, Reddit, and Pinterest.
X is not a major platform. It has continued to struggle with outages, trolling, user exodus, and now a little more than an Internet ghost town.
It’s No. 1 in percentage of Nazis, though.
Totally unforgivable there are still so many politicians, reporters and self-respecting organisations on there.
What about Trurh Social?
There’s really just one guy, but he’s quite active.
Yea but that’s 100% Nazis
Truth Social is probably higher
Entire Fediverse on that chart would be 1.4, according to https://fediverse.observer/stats&months=12
Fediverse monthly active users has been going down. I’m starting to notice my Mastodon feed not having the people I follow anymore, because of they consolidated their alternative social media in Bluesky only.
Interesting. According to that chart it’s been going up.
Wow, to fall behind Pinterest is quite an achievement (derogatory)
The only “social network” my teenager has asked permission to make an account on is Pinterest.
I was a little confused at the request, because in my mind Pinterest was a defunct site that no one used, but apparently it’s popular with at least some of the younger generation.
I’ve come around slightly on Pinterest. Not fully–it’s still vapid and there’s a lot of attempted lock-in–but there is some good stuff on there, and its attempt at curating creativity is kind of refreshing.
I love looking at stuff like this and not knowing what half of these things are.
You dont have peeble on doop? Boomer.
I have no interest in yoting anything on doop. I’d rather clagpost on greenglog
I know all of them even if I don’t have active accounts on there…
Edit: Actually the only ones I’ve never had an active account on are Messenger and Kuaishou. My datafootprint is an excavation site.
Pinterest is a social network?
I kind of feel the same about YouTube, but I do know they have comments at least…Why do people still use the Nazi pedophile app
Good riddance honestly.
Even when Jack was managing that shithole it was still a shithole. Magnitudes better than the nuclear wasteland it is now but a shithole none the less.
Btw the embeddedscience.org article you linked is, at least partly Ai generated.
…Its a self-suck fest for people who think of themselves as being “in media”
For some reason Twitter specifically is like black tar heroin to politicians. Even post-Musk, left wing politicians like AOC and Bernie are still giga active on the platform.
There has to be a massive overlap in the Meta communities but even so, they’ve probably got half the world’s population feeding them data. That’s pretty terrifying.
Twitter has American politicians, celebrities, press, and corporations, as well as world leaders and they all still use it to blabber publicly, so it doesn’t need to cater the the proles.
For a moment I thought “wow didn’t know Snapchat is so popular” …
because twitter exists just for nazis and paedophiles.
Is there any actual 3rd party verification of the users or is it just “trust me bro!”?
These things are notoriously difficult to measure accurately, but this is from Statistica, which has a reputation for pretty good metrics. At the very least, one would expect their metrics to be comparable across the analysis, if not necessarily a perfect measure of absolute numbers.
🤔 Even after reading the “Why YSK” section, I still don’t know what to do with this information. Maybe I’m missing something that should be obvious? I’ve never been much of a social media guy
