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The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called “fediverse” — a collection of decentralized social networking applications, like Mastodon, that communicate with one another over the ActivityPub protocol.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

This is literally the bottleneck of all of fediverse imo.

With ease of use integrated into the fediverse, half of social media could become irrelevant.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (8 children)

My brain went "Firefox has what 7% market share? What's 50% of that?? Actually, that probably is 4x the 'Fediverse' user total right there"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

7 was a stand in for a single digit numbet.. didn't realize it was that low. Yikes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Even if it is that low in relative terms, your point probably still stands.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Three percent of all browsers is a fuckton of users, considering that includes mobile users who are going to be less likely to change their browser then desktop users. There is an estimated 6.92 billion smartphone users. Three percent of that is more users than there are people in the United States.

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