CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Yeah, I have never really cared about the platform so maybe I'm too easily amazed by whatever sociological phenomenon is going on there. But some real people are still on there among the bots and trolls, and I profoundly wonder what has happened to their brains to make them tolerate being on a site like this.
@theoneisrightlad @libreoffice

For anyone interested in the perverse denialism of the people stuck on the platform formerly known as Twitter, this conversation is quite a case study:
https://nitter.net/LibreOffice/status/2026204949760131158

Starts out with a critical X user who is, you should know, "very pro-open source in privacy". Others are concerned that Fediverse engagement might be skewed by "more bots than here", and of course the all-time great "If you want true decentralized social media then it is Nostr".

People are beyond saving.
@libreoffice

Crazy stats indeed - I thought for a second Last Week Tonight's episode on Twitter had somehow caused another mass influx, before realizing the timeline didn't add up.

Still nice to see the network is bigger than we thought, and that the decline in users over time seems to have been exaggerated or comlpetely wrong.

Maybe it could be an idea to annotate the graphs with major events/data oddities one should be aware of?
@fediverseobserver

I picked up right away that the guy was a lousy farmer with no cows, so pretty happy about that!

I guess it helps being a Scandinavian who understands German, has Scottish friends, and knows enough Dutch to know what a bauer is. There's a lot of words from all over the place.
@beatricejess @Natasha_Jay