It's not even fully open to the public yet. I'm waitlisted. 10k post/day seems great for a closed alpha.

Hackernews is also a social network - and it seems like this thing works with even less posts per day?

You don't need a huge following to have a functioning social group.

Pretty good for 50k users (and keep in mind almost half a million downloads that can be converted into users)

Yes. It's interesting, from a tech perspective, to a lot of people here based on its combination of the decentralized nature of the AT protocol combined with usability that seems to work for people (compared to Mastodon).

It's small, but it has a lot of interesting ideas behind the scenes and interesting people using it.

good ol' hackernews and its "it's a new startup, is it even worth talking about?" mob