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@ Râu Cao ⚡
2025-05-20 06:20:46
Both Meta and Automattic (WordPress) announced ActivityPub support before Elon purchased Twitter, and the fediverse had already seen multiple big waves of user influx at that point. Not even mentioning the countless papers written about it, or the many different implementations in existence by then. I think there were about 25K active servers/instances in late 2023.
It was Bluesky that grew massively after the Elon purchase.
Either way, the important takeaway is that large-scale adoption can only happen when you already have a healthy network running, and it has enough users on it to be interesting enough for newcomers to stay for longer. Posting exclusively to the networks you want to grow, instead of cross-posting to the networks you want to shrink, is the best way of creating that sustainable base.