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    Now witness the power of this fully operational Fediverse!https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/now-witness-the-power-of-this-fully-operational-fediverse/How can you measure the popularity of a social network site? Perhaps by counting the number of active accounts, or the quality of the discourse, or even how many people reply to your witty memes.Me? I prefer to look at how many people visit my blog from each site. It is an imperfect measure - and a vain one - but lets me know where I should be spending my time. No point posting on a network which is just bots talking to each other, right?Earlier this year I built a stats-counter for my blog. Every time someone clicks from a website which links to my blog, it records that visit in a database. I get to see which blog posts are doing numbers, and where those numbers came from.Until fairly recently, the Mastodon social network didn't send referer details. I thought that reduced the visibility of the network and lobbied for it to change. As various Mastodon servers upgrade, and admins opt-in, it is becoming more apparent just how much traffic originates from the Fediverse.Over the last few weeks, here's how many people have clicked from BlueSky and Mastodon to one of my blog posts.TotalSource1,607bsky.app752mastodon.socialAt first glance, it doesn't look good for our elephantine friends, does it? The butterfly sends over twice the traffic. Game over!But, of course, while Mastodon.social is the biggest instance - it is far from the only one. What happens if we slide down the long tail? Here's all the Mastodon-ish instances which sent me over 10 clicks.TotalSource193phanpy.social120 android-app://org.joinmastodon.android/106infosec.exchange62mas.to59mstdn.social55social.vivaldi.net49wandering.shop48fosstodon.org33mathstodon.xyz27mastodon.online26mastodon.scot24app.wafrn.net19indieweb.social18social.lol17tech.lgbt17toot.wales16en.osm.town16feditrends.com14mstdn.ca14piefed.social12wetdry.world11c.im11mastodon.nl51 Sites sending < 10 clicksAh! Add them all up and you get a grand total of 1,773 visitors from Mastodon-powered sites. That's more than BlueSky.Now, there are some obvious caveats to the data:I have a smaller follower count on BlueSky than I do on Mastodon.My posts may appeal more to one demographic than another.People may have strict privacy controls which suppress the true volume of visitors.There's no way to measure how long someone spends reading my posts.RSS and newsletter visitors aren't counted.Clicks from apps may not always show a referer.Some people may be on multiple services.Fediverse users can follow the post directly, so don't need to visit the site to read it.And yet… no matter how you slice it, Fediverse servers are sending as much traffic as BlueSky!I think this is brilliant. Web services should be able to scale from small to big - and each ActivityPub-powered site helps power the open Internet.Just for completeness, this is how Reddit, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Lemmy do over the same period:TotalSource1,158reddit.com585 android-app://com.reddit.frontpage/76facebook.com76https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/56https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/52youtube.com41t.co38https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nsw7f4/til_in_mongolia_instead_of_a_street_address_a/31linkedin.com27 android-app://io.syncapps.lemmy_sync/27https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1nsw7f4/til_in_mongolia_instead_of_a_street_address_a/22https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1n96ftn/40_years_later_are_bentleys_programming_pearls/22lemmy.ca17 android-app://com.linkedin.android/16lemmy.dbzer0.com14feddit.org11https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1n96ftn/40_years_later_are_bentleys_programming_pearls/10discuss.tchncs.de10l.instagram.com8lemmy.blahaj.zone6https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1m2l84b/considering_making_the_switch_does_google_pay/6reddthat.comIf you add up all the Lemmy instances, they send about as much traffic as Facebook and LinkedIn combined. That's not a huge surprise - those platforms hate anyone clicking away to the wider web.Twitter is basically the Dead Internet. I'm no longer on there, but I do occasionally search it to see who is sharing my posts. The popular posts I write get shared a lot - sometimes by accounts with huge followers - yet there are no comments or retweets and barely and clicks.I don't do Instagram or Threads, and that might be reflected in their low numbers. But I'm not active on YouTube either - yet people there occasionally link back to me.Final ThoughtsFirstly, my stats only represent my site. Your site might be very different.Secondly, I've ignored search engine traffic, big blogs, newsletters, and other sources.Thirdly, and most importantly, this isn't a competition! The desire for a "winner-takes-all" service is dangerous and disturbing. An ecosystem is at its most vibrant when there are multiple participants each thriving in their own niche.I want a thousand sites, running a hundred different software stacks, some of which only serve a dozen people, or even a lone participant.Diversity is strength.#activitypub #bluesky #fediverse #mastodon #statistics
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    @mastodonmigration @mattsheffield Note the second piece is https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/
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    »The Case for Alien Life on Saturn’s Moon Just Got a Boost« https://www.404media.co/the-case-for-alien-life-on-saturns-moon-just-got-a-boost-2/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
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    Threads, la nueva red social de Meta, será compatible con el Fediverso. ¿Es esto una buena noticia? La historia parece indicar que no, ya que es probable que la multinacional esté desplegando una estrategia llamada "Adopta, Extiende, Extingue".. Las grandes compañías tech, las que están incluídas en las siglas GAFAM, esto es, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon y Microsoft, son conocidas por sus supuestas (o a veces no tan supuestas) prácticas monopolísticas. Solo a modo de ejemplo, una rápida búsqueda en internet nos proporciona casos como: - El departamento de justicia contra google. - La FTC contra Facebook. - Y otros casos similares de los estados de Tejas, Colorado y Utah contra google. No obstante, Meta (ose podría enfrentar hoy en día a un competidor que no puede ser comprado: el Fediverso. En el vídeo anterior os introduje un poco a este mundo del fediverso. El fediverso es un grupo descentralizado de servidores que usan el protocolo ActivityPub para comunicarse entre ellos. ActivityPub es un protocolo de red abierto para crear redes sociales descentralizadas. Básicamente, este protocolo proporciona una API cliente-servidor para crear, actualizar y eliminar contenidos, así como una API federada de servidor a servidor para enviar notificaciones y contenidos. El resultado es que con este protocolo se han creado redes sociales federadas y descentralizadas, como Mastodon (que sería como un Twitter), PeerTube (que sería como un Youtube), Lemmy (que sería como un Reddit), y otras. De los enormes beneficios que aportan estas redes descentralizadas, federadas, y FOSS, ya hablé en mi vídeo anterior. La idea de este vídeo es ver los mecanismos que tienen las grandes tecnológicas para acabar con esta competencia, que no pueden comprar como ha hecho en otras ocasiones, ya que no es propiedad de nadie, sino el resultado de la comunicación espontánea entre muchos servidores. 🕒 Marcas temporales: 00:00 Introducción 00:26 El Fediverso como amenaza 02:48 "Adopta, Extiende, Extingue" 04:32 Google vs XMPP 12:27 El origen de la estrategia 14:44 Meta vs Fediverso 15:50 La prueba 16:16 Conclusión: ¿qué podemos hacer? 🔵 Algunos enlaces relevantes: 🔗 Artículo en que me he basado: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html 🔗 Casos judiciales GAFAM: https://www.economicliberties.us/tech-lawsuit-timelines/ 🔗 Threads: https://www.xataka.com/basics/threads-instagram-que-como-funciona-que-promete-esta-red-social 🔗 Fediverso: https://fediverse.party/ 🔴 VÍDEOS QUE YOUTUBE NO TE RECOMIENDA https://youtu.be/EQy9g-U0VYM https://youtu.be/tzkb-qH-uYU 🟢 CONTRIBUYE A LA DIFUSIÓN DEL SOFTWARE LIBRE: 🦇 Donando BAT si usas Brave Browser 🪙 Bitcoin (BTC): bc1qtmpr2k40kquq6scchv9dre65lahjr2gxrpdp69 🌩️ Bitcoin lightning (BTC): https://getalby.com/p/linuxchad 🕵️ Monero (XMR): 86LXrzSe7wfLAsWVftebH3UNozb6Pf5K8KKooBRo47BYhge4HmzEeaBHa3twGe3hmjG5UPUm6DrFhi2tZVPnaxm752vhZ9f