• crittecol@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s nuts how a difference of hundreds of millions of people doesn’t actually feel like a ton more people or provide any better quality except in some niche spots

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This is a good point. My interactions with the Fediverse over the last few months has been sublime. Maybe users here are just proportionally more active?

      Numbers are nice, but they’re not everything. Yeah, we could onboard 2 billion lurkers, but how would that improve anything?

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      1 year ago

      You’re unlikely to be in conversation with hundreds of millions of people at a time; or even thousands of people. Conversations happen with just a handful of people. So those platforms with billions of people perhaps allow for some ultra-niche subgroups, but otherwise are just providing a lot of low-value noise with the additional people.