Pfft and by a good margin too. Real people or bots, it’s pretty ironic either way. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh nice, ZDF Magazin Royale has it’s own mastodon instance and janboehm on it
One of the most tragic scenes in Dune is when Paul Atreides realizes that Stilgar is no longer his friend but another one of his fanatical followers. Follower counts on social media really means nothing.
But maybe there is someone out there who refuses to participate in a broken system of a fantasy world, and instead decided to leave for a part of the Fediverse where their follower count is, and will forever remain, zero.
Like what Stereotypical Barbie did at the end of the movie.
That’s why celebs should try to be friends with their fans /s
Thanks, I hate it.
This is big Tom energy.
Wer ist dieser Junge?
Er soll weggehen ich will die Liste sehen
I’m sure those are all legitimate users who are very interested in what Zuck is posting…
Well @zuck (and @mosseri) are from Threads and, like @Mastodon, it makes sense a lot of people would first choose to follow the top leaders. I imagine the majority of those are actually legitimate users, though the Threads bubble also very quickly popped, so who knows how many are still active
I will never understand why people follow “celebrities” on social media. Isn’t life already forcefully inundated with these overly self-important assholes as is? This is the same to me as people who go on YouTube to watch commercials; I just cannot fathom the appeal
I mean, how else do you propose to organize the sea of information that the internet is constantly swamped in? Individual personalities work as a pretty consistently navigable waypoint and information gatekeeper, a pretty decent filtration mechanism. Most other methods are somewhat vulnerable to corruption over time, or are less consistent, or demand higher maintenance for different tradeoffs.
On Twitter, I can see it. I always thought Twitter was a great place to do things like “Performing LIVE at the astro dome 2/31/2024! Tickets on sale now!” I could see following your favorite bands or comedians or whatever.
Depends on the celebrity. Neil Gaiman is actually pretty chill online. Takei too, but the amount of articles he posts started to annoy me, so I dumped him. I don’t really know what people see in Zuck, though.
Pretty sure Neil Gaiman is chill offline, too.
We need 4 million bots to push arstechnica up to the #1 spot
Oh my! Why not Takei?
Could be worse.
Could be spez.
Well, that disproves the effectiveness of that metric!
This has the same vibe as MySpace Tom being everyone’s first friend.
Who is this person named “cuck” ?
I live under a rock, so whats a threads and who is Mark Zuckerburg?
I gest, I really dont care that Mark is on the fediverse. Till my Lemmy instance is full of threads crap and I have to route via the Zuckerburg hive mind.
George Takaei 420 nice…
We truly are reddit’s continuation
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