What a terrible graph. That “huge” spike is a mere 0.5% increase. That might as well be noise.
Don’t believe any graph whose y-axis starts at any value but 0 people.
Don’t believe any graph whose y-axis starts at any value but 0 people.
This one is pretty bad but that is definitely not the right lesson to take from it. The one thing it does show us is that approximately 20k extra new users suddenly showed up compared to the trend, and that would be much more difficult to see if the relevant axis did start at zero. The bigger problem is that it shows too short a time span. It’s not clear how unusual this event was, or if it happens every week.
The other weird thing is that bottom-right axis does start at zero for some reason. I’m guessing it might somehow be trying to indicate “toots” specifically made by those new users? But that’s not how it’s labelled and it seems unlikely they could have that data.
It clearly shows a major update in signups
Both right axes start at zero. They’re the important part of the graph.
If you talk about a new wave of users, then the number of users is also important, really important
This is a bad take in this case. This graph is of total population, not if signups. It effectively is zeroed.
Sure it’s a very small increase relative to the total but relative to recent history this is very significant.
Edit: the bigger issue from a data interpretation perspective is the date range sampled is small.
The point is on the “hourly increase”, which starts at 0.
Please Reddit, do it
Yeah I’m tired of having to look up something, only to find that I have to stop Google from trying to log back into my banned Reddit account.
It’s amazing I’ve been on Lemmy for months now and I’ve yet to be banned from anything on it, it’s almost like not having normies modding out of a desire to solely Power Trip is good for business
Actually praying for the corporate/political astroturf campaigns to work this time. Just this once
Honestly the Twitter thing has been great for shifting the internet zeitgeist in a decidedly fuck-billionaires direction. The material suffering was obviously already here in abundance, but now the shittiness has come to the home of the people who are comfortable enough to keep posting through the growing poverty around them, and they rightfully hate it.
Elon Musk is doing as much for the fediverse as Nutomic himself
See, capitalism is good!
When it’s imploding on itself, that is.
X is not charging everyone.
They plan too, musk confirmed
It was from an interview with the PM of Israel, where Elon stated they will introduce “lower tier pricing” for premium. There is no mention of charging everyone to use X.
At 34:40
https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1703806204894498966?t=hoV3axpQWwWNmwQ8yPu65Q&s=19
Elon didn’t say he would charge all the X/Twitter users. The media just made that up.
Good for Mastodon, though.
You’re telling me an industry that profits off viewership might occasionally put wrong information in a headline to get more attention?
Elon didn’t say he would charge all the X/Twitter users.
What do you mean by that? He didn’t say he was definitely going to do so right now, but he proposed it with quite some degree of seriousness. I don’t intend to watch the whole video with Netanyahu to make sure what he said exactly, but all the articles I’ve seen are too detailed and explicit for it to be just an aside that the media blew out of proportion.
