#Forkiverse update: we are now at 9,195 registered users 💪
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@Casey does the feeling of the power of the ban hammer increase linearly with the people or logarithmically? Do you think that Zuc feels 100,000 times as powerful or just 10 times?
@drbowtie he famously gave the power away! (he kept a lot of other powers but wanted to get rid of that one specifically)
@Casey That's forking crazy
@Casey what do we get at 10k?
@Casey What happened to the 2000 user limit on your server? I mean the Forkiverse growth is awesome, but now I feel less elite....
@Casey how should we celebrate the 10k, @ask_forky ?
what's the percentage of people new to fedi vs folks who switched fedi servers? have you converted any bluesky peeps?
no matter what, so very cool.
@wjmaggos probably no way to know unless we did a survey
@Casey The #forkiverse hit in two weeks what it took Indieweb.social server two years….
@tchambers
> The forkiverse hit in two weeks what it took Indieweb.social server two years….
That tells you something about the size of the Hard Fork and Search Engine audience. Maybe also something about the fact that IndieWeb people are more likely to roll their own, if they can, than join a service run by someone else ; )
Kudos to @Casey and co for running the experiment. Sounds like you're enjoying yourselves, which is great : )
@strypey @Casey I think it also shows the model of podcasting and Youtube major communities don't need to be as dependent on the big tech platforms as intermediaries to their fans, and instead can "build their own" communities on the open social web, not "rent them" from platforms that can change on a whim, disrupting those relationships with creators most important audiences.
@Casey have you experienced the sudden urge to invade our privacy and sell ads on the feed yet? Apparently its an inevitability. Let us know when it hits.
@Casey Wait! Is the forkiverse becoming mainstream? Are we going to have to leave because it's not cool anymore?
@Casey do we all get hoodies with our employee number embroidered on the sleeve
@Casey Thanks for keeping up with the overflow. You guys rock! #theforkiverse
@Casey coulda been 9,195 more friends for @pj! https://theforkiverse.com/@ag/115957244108698479
Congratulations. This really has been a huge success.
@Casey 10K by the end of the month?
@Casey The level of engagement and general 'sense of community' is really quite impressive. There's also a lot of mechanisms creating 'mastodon-wide' links and certain apps also seem to be able to do this on the fedi level (like Tuba on Linux).
@Casey sweet Jesus
Since this is an experiment, are you almost ready to start inferring conclusions from the vast pool of research data you've accumulated over the past weeks?
