Anil DashAt its peak, there were ~5000 developers building on the Ethereum blockchain, according to enthusiasts' own estimates, and this was easily the most popular platform for blockchain devs. By contrast, over in the fediverse, Mastodon *alone* has over 40k stars on GitHub (indicating individual devs who are following the project) and that's just one project within the overall explosion of innovation happening in every facet of the fediverse — without any crypto bribes or scams driving any of it.
dorianlistens@anildash Not that I think GitHub stars are much of an indication of anything either way, but an extremely quick search leads me to https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum, which has 41.2K stars. I wouldn’t dispute that the fediverse seems to have had meaningfully more real-world impact, but this 5K vs 40K comparison doesn’t hold water.
@dorianlistens sure, then let's say they're merely even! still remarkable given *tens of billions* invested into crypto platforms.
@anildash Definitely!