OptimusPrime

The goal of implementing this feature is to leverage the benefits of federation. If we wait until there is only a few big communities, the purpose of having federation becomes irrelevant. When an instance hosting one of those large communities shuts down, the community would have to migrate to the next major community.

By proactively implementing this feature, Lemmy can harness the advantages of federation while actively mitigating the challenges posed by community fragmentation and echo chambers. It provides a centralized hub that encourages cross-pollination of ideas, fosters community engagement, and ensures that valuable content is accessible to all users, regardless of the size or popularity of individual communities.

Here are some of the monthly active user statistics for various social media platforms, according to the search results:

1. Facebook - 2.96 billion monthly active users (MAUs) [1]
2. YouTube - 2.56 billion MAUs[2]
3. WhatsApp - 2 billion MAUs[3]
4. Instagram - 2 billion MAUs[3][4]
5. WeChat - 1.26 billion MAUs[2]
6. TikTok - 1 billion MAUs[2]
7. Facebook Messenger - 988 million MAUs[2]
8. Snapchat - 557 million MAUs[2]
9. Pinterest - 444 million MAUs[2]
10. Twitter - 368 million MAUs[5]

It's worth noting that these numbers are subject to change and may vary depending on the source. Additionally, there are many other social media platforms with significant user bases that are not listed here. When choosing which social media platforms to use for your brand, it's important to consider the relevance to your target audience and the quality of engagement on each platform, rather than just the number of users.

Citations:

[1] https://buffer.com/library/social-media-sites/

[2] https://www.semrush.com/blog/most-popular-social-media-platforms/

[3] https://datareportal.com/social-media-users

[4] https://statusbrew.com/insights/social-media-statistics/

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_at_least_100_million_active_users

By Perplexity at https://www.perplexity.ai/search/98165c01-5be7-41be-ba6c-fd77454d3b5a

We are at 5k monthly active users. I find that stat more interesting.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

I agree with what I just read. It should just be an instance setting and let admins choose. Mastodon can't outcompete Twitter without an algorithm to easily find things you find interesting, and Lemmy probably won't be able to outcompete Reddit without karma.

This is one of the features that made social media successful. Without the reward-dopamin loop, people have less incentive to generate quality content. Publicly showing karma is another thing. While it's nice to be able to hide it, it's one method of judging a user on reddit. In combination with other methods, it's easier to spot trolls.

What's wrong with "karma farming"? Disabling it, obviously doesn't prevent spam/propaganda/bad quality content. Also, reposting is important for people new to the platform. (Who didn't laugh at a joke on reddit which everybody seems to already know about?)

I think improving moderation methods would be way better to counter low quality content than radically concealing information that's already there for the one in control of the instance.

— heeplr

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https://lemmynsfw.com/post/543