There are roughly 250 million twitter users and only about one million Mastadon users. So one Mastadon like is the equivalent of 250 twitter likes.

And you can't convince my ego otherwise

Apparently there are now almost 6 million Mastadon users, which means the relative value of a like has really gone down 😝
@Wildethingy I wonder if I should be getting 250 times less interactions here on mastodon. Thus far I am finding the opposite to be true! Assuming same number of followers/following. No algorithm here either! 🀯

@Pece @Wildethingy My feeling is that when you have an algorithm promoting content for engagement people end up with engagement fatigue and things they would normally interact with get lost along the way in a sea of populism.

I used to specifically avoid liking any post with more than 1000 likes to save my clicks and pokes for those things that were special to me and weren't getting the attention they deserved.

@Wildethingy wouldn't want to change your view, but are there really just about 1 million mastodonies? I wouldn't know where to look up such a number about the fediverse.
@Ulan_KA Google is the font of all knowledge and the font of a lot more misinformation 😝
@Wildethingy The answers found with google are mixed. There are numbers told by sources that have counted 1m different active users, some 1Β½ m, but also estimates of up to 6m.
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@Wildethingy not sure I can handle that responsibility!
@Wildethingy 249 million of those users on twitter are bots or kardashians.
@Wildethingy I'd like to think regular followers are all super followers here (they don't pay but that's okay)
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It was designed to be anti-viral
@Wildethingy reframing for bird site detox….
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