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   Johannes Ernst (j12t@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 06:51:57 JST Johannes Ernst

   So Threads is starting to connect to Mastodon and the many other applications in the Fediverse starting today.

   It's a baby step, for sure, but others will follow.

   Which social network will be the next to follow?

   https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C0zXcQmxO77

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 06:51:55 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @J12t Snap

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 06:55:07 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @J12t So, here's my rule of thumb: it makes a lot of sense to join an internetwork bigger than your actual network.

     So if you're running a service that has 50M users, say, it doesn't make sense to join an internetwork with a total of 5M users. It would make sense to join one with 105M users, though.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 07:01:23 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @J12t With that rule of thumb, I am not sure who could be next. I don't have a lot of MAU info for social networks. On this list, the big candidates would be VK and Tumblr.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_at_least_100_million_active_users

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 07:05:03 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @J12t However, that list doesn't have services that have <100M users. Last I saw, Medium is around 100M. There may be some others for whom the math gets very different as the number of users on the fediverse jumps past their own size.