At this rate the internet itself won't survive..

Which is not a good idea for the ones making it unusable since it will be their heads rolling down the street when they realize a free and open and not slop infested internet is the only "circus" left keeping the people from burning their respective countries to the ground.

I think that *is* the Fedi? There's literally loads of people on here who fondly remember (or even still use) 20th century tech (only a few weeks ago I tested a new VOIP telephone system by connecting a British Telecom 8746 dial telephone to it (via an ATA) to make a test call..

The main ones I see are using crawlers, but a bunch of instances block those and block logged out users. Or just don’t handle NodeInfo at all.

Misskey in general seems to leave activeMonth and activeHalfyear to undefined.

It’s easy to see no change if one is only counting the increasingly unpopular Mastodon.

Counting fedi users and counting Mastodon users are two different things.

> My issue is that a platform the size of Mastodon isn't going to encourage sweeping changes to how the internet is inhabited.

It already has. EU institutions have official presence here, EU regulations are inspired by the interoperability and federated nature of this here social network. There are many ways to "encourage sweeping changes" without having to be the biggest kid on the social media block.

Zero opinions that did not come with a check by some corpo doucho.

He couldn't get out of vim, if he found himself there, if we gave him another computer to look it up.

He never had a single tech opinion that was not handed to him, with a check, by some corporate PR douchebag.

Always consider your sources.