FediCon 2026 is coming up! Follow @fedicon@techhub.social for info.

I'll be there hosting a panel.

Also hoping to do a presentation on "The Fediverse Isn't..." a non technical presentation on how we should view the Fediverse and not stop at just remaking the old walled gardens.

@dandelionutilitarian@mastodon.social I LOVE this. That's so well done man. Great job.

Testing the latest rc1 of @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe . looking good!

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

Special Guest: @samir@m.fedica.com

Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @FedicaHQ, Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 05/22/26 at 15:30 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )

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@fbinin@mastodon.fbin.in Forgot to give you the email! 😁 firesidefedi@btfree.org or btfree@btfree.org

@NorcalGma2@sfba.social @FediTips@social.growyourown.services

I am so glad you had fun! 😊 I enjoyed it so much. Thank you so much for all of the wonderfulnes you bring here. <3

@baz@mastodon.scot @FediTips@social.growyourown.services

Thank you very much! I greatly appreciate it. I'm @ozoned and created the idea to just talk with folks. My community has helped me improve it tremendously though. And I'm just glad even 1 person finds it interesting. 😊 I started it just to get to know y'all. <3

@fbinin@mastodon.fbin.in feel free to shoot me an email and we can discuss it! I really enjoy talking and getting to know folks! 😊

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@NorcalGma2@sfba.social is such a lovely person! Bringing positive energy and beauty to the Fediverse. <3

@fbinin@mastodon.fbin.in @FediTips@social.growyourown.services

The criteria is that you're a person that would like to talk. 😊 And get to know others. Share a project, talk about your dog, whatever.

So it's been folks that I've found on the Fediverse, that I found interesting and asked. I've had MANY suggestions of people as well. I have to get back on my list actually. Life's been a bit hectic, but hoping to do more in the future. 😊

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services thank you so much for the shout out! 😊

And as usual, thank you so much for all you do! <3

@14mission@sfba.social It's a difficult one though. "Boosts" are you actively sharing with your community. That's the primary method of organic growth here I'd imagine. Of course I don't even know that for sure. How do folks primarily find others? Hashtags? Boosts from someone they follow? IDK. 😊

But someone else pointed out that even a low quality comment might not be as helpful for a quantitative analysis. How many +1 posts are there? Are they the same value as our conversation here?

IDK! 😁 I just feel passionate that MAU is the completely wrong metric.

@14mission@sfba.social Absolutely. And folks should have the option to stay private. We'll NEVER know the true size of the Fediverse. There will be islands, there will be people that just consume and don't respond to anything. All of that is ok.

But people are looking at just MAU and saying we're shrinking. And if we are, so what. It's not a valid number. It's A number yes.

But that's like saying my car is better than yours because it has 120,000 miles on it and your car is brand new. 😁

@phwolfe940@denton.social OH YES! This place is absolutely not built to be addicting. It's built to be community first and I'd go so far as to say every project I've personally used, do as much as possible to break those bad habits.

@NatureMC@mastodon.online ABSOLUTELY agree with all of this. I guess my underlying argument is the old yard stick of MAU, has zero relevance to us. And though I see folks having the best intentions, there are those that attempt to measure in MAU and indicate the Fediverse is dieing. I think that's absolutely incorrect. We're spreading out. Yes, some people left. But I know I run my own now, when in the past I was on a Mastodon instance.

@johannab@cosocial.ca excellent points. :-). I can definitely see numerous folks upset at the thought. And I can't blame anyone. Considering the abuses people are attempting to extract themselves from.

@johannab@cosocial.ca this is already FAR deeper than my knowledge on the field. :-D. Sounds like numerous research papers to be had for anyone willing. Lol. NOT me though. Not my forte. 😄

@johannab@cosocial.ca exactly! We're measuring ourselves wrong. MAU is a meaningless statistics, when my site will probably only ever get me. But I'm still a piece of the conversation to Mastodon.social though I am NEVER one of their monthly active users.

I know lots of folks are talking about Monthly Active Users when it comes to health of the Fediverse.

We use that to compare social medias and even ourselves, a social network, to each other.

I argue we should be focused on user engagement. I know LinkedIn has "impressions", but idk what that means.

So I wonder if there's a good way to generate this. Someone posting is the highest, commenting, subscribing, liking, disliking, and follow on down. I guess that would be a statistical model? But with diminishing returns. One SUPER ACTIVE ANNOYING poster does not a network make, but "media" it does.

I don't have a clue how this would work statistically. But I theorize, that while we're smaller MAU, our user engagement is significantly higher when population size is accounted for.

Is there any data anyone knows of to back this up or disapprove it? I'm pro small.social though, so maybe I'm wrong. Any data scientists in the Fediverse? :-D #data #dataIsBeautiful #fedi #fediverse #science

@dnpdame@mastodon.social graduates with her Doctorate of Nurse Practitioner TOMORROW!

I'm so proud of you! I love you so much and want to yell it proudly to the world that you worked so hard to get here. And I've loved being with you on this journey. Thank you for allowing me to share in your life.