X (twitter): “Oh shit, most of our users are bots.”

Mastodon: “Oh shit, we have a bunch of extra users.”

I only have the same issue with Mastadon that I do with Lemmy, I have no idea what instance to join. This one I’m apart of now for Lemmy I randomly joined when the admin said he’d accept reddit refugees who wanted to try out Lemmy.

If anyone has any suggestions for good instances to pick I’d give Mastadon a try. Otherwise, it’s a nightmare for people like me (who’s been compared to Chidi from The Good Place in terms of my overthinking and decision making).

Basically, it’s 727 servers that weren’t taken into account before due to a connectivity error. I also wonder if Mastodon counts the alternatives, like Akkoma and Misskey for that regard, or if the increase is actually accounting for those only now. It’s unclear what the error was, Eugen doesn’t go into detail on the thread.

Bit unrelated, but who drew that? The elephant looks sooo cute!!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The adjustment also included a gain of 2.34 million registered users across an additional 727 servers that had not been counted due to the error.

The issue was impacting the metrics reported on Mastdon’s statistics aggregator on its joinmastodon.org/servers page, which had been undercounting users between Oct. 2 and Oct. 8.

The latest disruptive move by X owner Elon Musk has seen the company remove headlines from link previews on the platform for aesthetic reasons and to keep users on the site instead of clicking away.

The move has angered publishers, some of which suggested they would scale back on posting to X given the declining traffic the network was sending their way as of late.

Prior to that, Musk announced he was planning to charge all users a small fee to use X, though it’s unclear how serious his statements were as CEO Linda Yaccarino didn’t seem to be aware of his ideas when asked during an interview.

Later, Yaccarino told X debt holders that the company would introduce three tiers of payment plans for the network in an effort to grow revenues.

The original article contains 391 words, the summary contains 184 words. Saved 53%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

It might seem like there’s little traffic on the site… until you say #Ukraine then all of a sudden you’re going to be deluged with some of the most unhinged liberals on this side of the internet.

Mastodon – more like Mastodong lol

Pleroma/Akkoma, Misskey, Kbin are better, and even Twitter alternatives Bluesky and Threads are better