~3 millions of active users vs ~300 M on XTwitter. Not bad, considering the amount of bots in twitter.
Or, even worse, the number of Twitter users on Twitter.
edit, I'm not interested in the comparison with twitter percentage wise or make any comparison with centralized social media.
Mastodon and Twitter likely have a similar percentage of total active users that are the former. I would speculate that Mastodon may even have more bots as a percentage of active accounts than Twitter because it is a smaller platform. Think news posting accounts that just link an article the second it is published.
Twitter, being a much larger mainstream platform probably has significantly higher percentage of users being the later kind of bots compared to Mastodon because they would have more of an impact on Twitter and Mastodon admins are more likely to just ban or defederate from instances that spread content that they don’t want to engage with.
If you were Twitter/X, how would you improve their current (probably state of the art) "malicious-content" bot detection + mitigation?
It sounds like it ain't just captchas and IP banning?
Advertising, blue checks, admitting that they have fewer genuine monthly active users than they currently report all negatively affect their bottom line. And any moderation solution that could work would be decried as censorship and people who do genuinely engage could leave the platform.
I do not think Mastodon (or especially Lemmy) are immune to the outrage culture of X and the like.
My guess: More growth ahead for the Fediverse, outside of areas discussed, and it will degrade rapidly.