How did that go?

Homestar runner

Thanks.

So not too dissimilar in terms of total numbers of users… however considering the growth of the whole internet’s user base…

760 million total worldwide internet users in 2003, vs 4.7 billion today.

Based on these sources, then, 1.3% of all internet users were using XMPP in 2003, and 0.26% of all internet users in the fediverse in 2023. As a proportion of all users, that makes XMPP roughly 5x more popular back then than ActivityPub is now.

Hmm I had a lot of trouble with jeroba, liftoff is working well for me at the moment though.

Are there numbers to back this up? I remember Pidgin being a contender to replace AIM for a time.

It does ask whether you’re a bot when your sign up, fwiw. Still honor system… And I don’t know what difference it makes after sign up

I wonder how much of a userbase this thing has who have never been on Reddit, though. Probably not more than a handful?