Threads is instagrams version of mastodon / twitter. Even know you can login with instagram it does bring it mainstream

That might take a while with all 2 million of them lol

Yeah, well, at least it’s said to have that many active users but logging in once in a month to check 1 post. So less than 10 seconds on the website / app counts as active.

I’m sure it’s slightly inflated. Hopefully indie developers and other smaller public figures come across.

As of last November 2 Million users. What compared to the rest of the Fediverse that’s very few.

https://mashable.com/article/bluesky-2-million-users-public-interface

There’s plenty of Celebs & public figures using Bluesky, as that’s how they started growing their platform originally.

There’s also Threads that have more Celebs & public figures including Bill Gates. So I guess Threads might be the way they will publicly get in on the Fediverse. That’s when they actually fully flesh their ActivityPub stuff and publicly release it.

Yes, ActivityPub 2.0 is working on that from what I can see. It would be really cool to see how that turns out. Bluesky’s not using the same protocols though, so unsure how they are going to fix with all of that.

Would it be best for Bluesky to then take all the celebs & public figures and work out a bridge between protocols, making it hopefully possible to see their stuff on Mastodon and other places?

As users can then choose if they want to use Mastodon or another alternative like Bluesky.

Yes I’ll stay active in as many places as I can on here especially when I know a topic. Even better now I’ve worked out a way to interact with people on Lemmy through Mastodon

Hopefully people will as I hate switching between different platforms and it’s one of the reasons I enjoy the fediverse

So Threads? That’s getting progress on coming to the Fediverse. Guess we would have lots more people join through that.

I wouldn’t say it would take more than 20 years. People are already annoyed with how much social media they have to move between, as well as the data collecting and adverts they get.

It’s that or if some of these bigger creators, stars or business’ move across to the Fediverse as their way of communication, then that would increase the user base.

I know people that use Reddit & Twitter purely for their NSFW content, So I don’t think taking away Fediverse NSFW content would work for those types of people.

That’s different from a Protocol that anyone can use, boot up a server that has access to the whole Fediverse active posts & user base.

The Fediverse is making it so much easier for people to have users across their own social network platforms, bending the protocols to work with what vision they have, well still allowing others to access it.

Yeah, I get what you mean. It would be good to get more niche communities involved. It’s good to see like-minded people, but it’s always good for someone to have another opinion that can back up their views with facts.

Having a guide to the Fediverse (at least Mastodon & Lemmy) could bring the people who are looking for alternatives to possibly see it and read about how you can easily join, which is a really good idea.

A lot of those people would need to go to there own instances that we would be able to block due to policies on most mastodon instances aligning with Trans Rights as well as other LGBT+ people being safe.

Yeah, they seem to be doing a good job and who knows if they join the Fediverse other sites might look at doing the same.

I would love for more activity for niche communities

I would like to see the Fediverse grow overtime, also we haven’t had to deal with a Decentralised network across the internet before, who knows what may happen.

Aww, forget that blackjack and the Hookers too.