Any evidence for this? Seems like this is something a few hundred or thousand even know about. That's a far cry from hundreds of thousands of millions.
There is an active and growing userbase though. The mentality is different than corporate social media; things move slower, including user growth.
> Last 6 months users: 2254133
> hundreds of thousands of millions.
hmm. 100 (hundreds) 000 (thousands) 000 000 (millions)
100 000 000 000.
Earth human population: ~7 billion.
7 000 000 000.
I didn't realize Twitter was expanding into the nonhuman market. Or are there more humans outside of Earth that no one told me about?
Far cry indeed.
Come on, use some common sense.
I'm on the fence whether brands do.
https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/14/personal-data-warehous...
1) It's hard to get on it, unless you know someone who is running an instance.
2) No-one I know is on it, and can't get on it since they don't know anyone running an instance.
3) The people who are on it all have names like xXxFuchsSturm1488xXx and think I want to see a constant rolling feed of politically-orientated furry pr0n.
2. When I joined I didn't know anybody either, but in a short time I connected to a lot of new interesting people. Now I have my own bots to relay content from people that are still on Twitter, and I have my own organic circle of followers - that's almost the best of the two worlds.
3. Muting profiles (and, even better, instances) is a good way of getting rid of a lot of spam/undesired content.
2) I don't want to connect to a lot of new interesting people, I want to connect to the interesting people I'm already connected with.
3) I don't see the fun in joining a social network where I need to mute 98% of all posts and profiles every single time I go on.
When it comes to muting, in my experience you don't have to mute 98% of the profiles. Spam usually comes from a handful of instances that are relayed to the instance you're registered - in the Fediverse instances can relay to one another, and tap into each other's feeds. If you have a lot of spam, that's usually because of the content from 3-4 relayed instances. Good instance admins usually intervene in this cases and mute that spam on instance level. If they don't, you can usually mute those few instances yourself, instead of muting every individual account.
...is that not most experiences of twitter?
As for where to have an account, sdf.org has been around since the 80s and hosts a variety of useful things including a fediverse client (if memory serves, mastodon).