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verita84 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 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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Vitor Pamplona | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +4 
 So, you like comunism. Fine. Do it for free.
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verita84 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 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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sudocarlos | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 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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verita84 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 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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sudocarlos | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 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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verita84 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 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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sudocarlos | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Ditto sis pretty cool. Needs packages for the popular home server/bitcoin node systems out there like @umbrel and @Start9
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śatosha | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 How many users Mastadon has ?
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verita84 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 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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Patrick | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I feel like this has more to do with Threads than instance operators of the rest of the network