The Fediverse is unique.

My survey asked what your favorite search engine is.

51% said DuckDuckGo, 12% Startpage, 9% Ecosia and 4% Qwant. Only 6% said Google and 1% Bing. 17% said they preferred another search engine, with many mentioning Kagi and Mojeek.

This is quite different from what the market share out there is, which shows how unique you all are here in the Fediverse. You make your own choices and do not follow everyone else. Be proud.

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People have forgotten how new technology is and how we take everything for granted. Similarly the Fediverse will not be everyday life now, but there's a huge chance it will be later. Nobody laughs at the Internet or smartphones any more, but they used to do so for years. Same for Linux, it's still laughed at, but you too probably are using it via the websites you browse or the phone you are using. Enormois success, just not in the sense one would presume.

This "Fancy new cellphones might allow users to access the Internet" news clip is from 2000. It still took over a decade for smart phones to be a popular norm. It took another decade from social media to slowly build features and commercial engagement traps aka enshittification and folks didn't even realize it. It was a decade minimum for social media to evolve to a norm.

And now people are frustrated if something takes a year or is "too difficult"? Come on.

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