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@kodamachameleon number 3 is interesting. It is true that it’s the slowest and the most resource intensive. But it’s also the one the scales the best. I had 50,000 people running on a single mastodon instance that was scaled across a bunch of hardware. That’s not possible on pleroma, misskey, etc. I wish it were, btw.

@tinmouth @GossiTheDog I am doing my damndest to keep them away.

@GossiTheDog I definitely see a lot of that. Since we moderate signups here, I would estimate it's about 50/50 between legit people and spammers/scammers signing up. But we are overall losing more people that we are gaining.

@faultcraft @GossiTheDog I think there are a lot of reasons, but a big one is the network effect - people want to be where the people are. There was a big rush of people here after Musk bought Twitter, and that is the 2.7M accounts. Lots of people got disenfranchised for various reasons: the culture can be a bit toxic (especially at the time), it's very hard to fend off harassment in a federated network like this, the features are/were not at parity, and so on. So we are on the way back to where it's mainly the people who specifically want to be here and not some other social media site.

@faultcraft @GossiTheDog do you mean ideas on why that's happening?

@GossiTheDog I would guess 30% of that .7m are spam accounts. It’s a little sad.