Oddbean

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 For some weird reason, Mastodon and the Fediverse continues to grow. New instances appear all the time without caring about money. Many do it for free! Amazing isn't it? No incentive whatsoever except to shitpost.

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 So, you like comunism. Fine. Do it for free.

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 I am not a comunist but I provide a free relay and even lightning wallets. It's not about communism. That is low-level thinking, It's about supporting the infrastructure and user and building a community. Can't price that

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 I think thats growing based on name recognition, network effect and desire to get away from the big platforms. But when users realize that the operators of an instance can rug them, they'll be looking around for the next thing again.

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 OK, again....Mastodon and the Fediverse continue to grow in instances and users and provides a better user experience.

What does Nostr have to offer? What good is owning your npub is everything sucks?

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 I'm here to see the cathedral get built and interact with the builders as they do it. Nsecs and relays seem like the much better approach compared to activitypub

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 You are right! 

If Nostr wants to kick ass, do Nsecs and relays but everything else like Mastodon/Pleroma

Then, Nostr can be taken seriously . 

Alex Gleason is doing this now for Nostr with Ditto/Soapbox and it's beautiful.

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 Ditto sis pretty cool. Needs packages for the popular home server/bitcoin node systems out there like @umbrel and @Start9

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 How many users Mastadon has ?

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 It's probably difficult to count because of all the instance blocking going on but here are the numbers:

1 Million Daily Active Users

https://mastodon-analytics.com/

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 I feel like this has more to do with Threads than instance operators of the rest of the network