The Federation? Almost 90% of Its Users Have Quit Participating.
Last month (on the first of October) we caught up with the state of social control media and we see things have further deteriorated since then. Having just mentioned Pete Zaitcev, his pinned (but not last) "tweet" was this:
He indeed has his instance, but it has not posted anything new in about a month.
Here's a recent one:
Like so many others who rolled out their federated social control media enthusiastically, he has basically lost momentum.
Consider what social control media accounts that are federated look like:
So it's somewhere around 700,000 users (a bit less) out of 5,350,749 users tracked. It looks like some time soon 90% of the users will be inactive. If one counts offline (historic) instances, it's even worse than this.
Over a decade ago I too enthusiastically spoke in favour of federated (and free/libre) social control media; but a lot has changed (both in the world and online) since then. █