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1. Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 09-Apr-2018 21:43:46 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield
   Let's do a little experiment. It's obviously biased by my relative participation in each, but I'm comparing the reach of twitter, facebook, Diaspora, pump, G+, and GNU Social (plus anything that can talk directly to it...that is not via NavierStokes).
   
   Please like this if you see it. Obviously, if you want more people to like it, then you share it, but I'm only going to count likes.
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   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 09-Apr-2018 21:59:06 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

     • Christine Lemmer-Webber
     Seems like getting Diaspora and pump talking to GNU Social more important than YASN. I guess it's mostly just interesting that I never ever here anyone talk about working on GNU Social. Do people do that?
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   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 09-Apr-2018 22:04:51 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

     • Christine Lemmer-Webber
     I often here how there's no one in the fediverse and that's why people don't drop facebook, but I get pretty shit post interaction on facebook. Maybe it's just because I don't post about whatever the most popular thing at the time is. It's already interesting for example that I have 14 likes here and zero on Google Plus and twitter combined. I don't think it necessarily says that twitter is a dead platform, but it's interesting.
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   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 09-Apr-2018 23:33:53 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

     • Craig Maloney ☕
     This was my assumption based on intuition. Facebook self-boosts things that get a lot of likes, so there is some chance that Facebook will end up winning, but it's 24 to 5 right now. You would think these sorts of numbers would be important for businesses and maybe they would be if there's a real marketing study about it. Maybe I'll mention it at work. The head of VCS marketing was the matron of honor at my wedding...I'm not sure if that makes me more or less likely to be written off as a free software kook but at least it won't be weird to just randomly give her the info.
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   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 09-Apr-2018 23:43:28 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     Another interesting tidbit: Facebook is up to 8 likes but zero comments.
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   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Apr-2018 21:01:06 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     face is up to 18...but for context, I have 930 "friends" on facebook.
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   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 16-Apr-2018 16:41:07 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     I don't think these numbers would be as high if Evan hadn't shared, but interesting numbers on pump: https://datamost.com/dw/note/q5om-DZRQbGslG1eVCLo4Q
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   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 22-Apr-2018 14:26:09 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

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     Here are the final numbers
     
     GNU Social/Mastodon: 49
     pump.io: 31
     Facebook:26
     Diaspora: 15
     G+: 7
     Twitter: 0
     
     What's interesting is that on Diaspora, pump, and GNU Social, I all got actual comments about how the study was being conducted. I got literally zero comments on twitter or G+. There's all sorts of bias in this, but I have more "friends" on facebook by an order of magnitude and significantly more on twitter than the free platforms. So, it seems like people join the proprietary networks and just don't use them very much.
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   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 13:09:10 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

     • Stabatha
     how do you know what results I want? :)
     
     Seriously though, the most interesting thing about this thread is its longevity. Thanks for the response!
   • Douglas A. Whitfield (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-May-2018 13:27:44 UTC Douglas A. Whitfield

     • Claudius
     thanks!