I’m genuinely interested in people thoughts about the Fediverse because here in the UK it has massively stalled in 2025, like a lot of things. I am seeing way less posts from UK people and way less interaction and general use in fact. Most seem to have stopped social media use to be fair, and I know a lot of that is to do with my age (old fart here, 56 laps round sun and counting) but the numbers game look poor from my point of view. Do we think the Fediverse has a future now after useage appears to be going downwards? Is it a UK thing? (well I know the UK is weird but hey)
I have enjoyed this discussion but some of my UK peers have added that the fediverse in general (like most social media to be fair) when it is new seems to “american” for them. Bluesky suffers from this criticism as well. This puts a lot of UK users off. Heck even threads is described by many as too us focused right now (see the I’m in the UK is anybody else posts on threads)
That’s really interesting. Australian here, and I’ve remarked several times how the userbase of the fediverse isn’t dominated by American voices like most other social media platforms I’ve used.
Yes, it’s nice to see German, Canadian, Australian, French and all the other instances blossom
Yay I was included in a list!
https://feddit.uk/ has 400 monthly active users and is as British as you can get
I think most of us are based on different instances too, the main UK community is showing more than double that per day.
Aye it is… but 400 users seems really small compared to others
2500 monthly active users on !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://feddit.uk/communities
again - no bias but that seems tiny compared to other “things”
What other things? For the Fediverse, there doesn’t seem to be a large UK mastodon instance: https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/list
For corporate social media, is there any UK based social media?
Nope… us Brits are a strange lot. Heck it is why I asked the q to start with because brits ARE so strange
Still, what other UK “things” have more than 2500 monthly active users ?
All the meta products, reddit, old fashioned forums… plenty of things. Discourse (pah) tik tok. Different but have way more users. I’m genuinely curious how they get so little traffic in this day and age against other methods. And yes, I know I’m asking on Lemmy, but I’m new here, and I still cannot fathom why they are so quiet
It’s an interesting perspective. Historically the fediverse was more European; Mastodon is based in Germany and initially got a lot of traction in France, NLNet has contributed a lot of the funding, and there’s historically more adoption by European governmental organizations than US. But these days a lot of the energy is being driven by corporate interests (Flipboard, Wordpress, Meta, Ghost) which are primarily American (Ghost being the only exception), so that’s leading to a change of dynamics. Distressing, especially given what’s going on here in the US!