My school used to have 600 people. 1000 is a huge crowd and it can easily be many times more than that. If it was like 300 years ago, then how would you even get 100 people to hear what you have to say?
Imagine walking onto a stage, in front of a thousand people, and just saying a random thing in the microphone, that you just thought of while stoned and then simply leaving. Alternatively, you could stay by the door and start arguing with the audience members as they’re leaving like I’m now probably going to do.
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I don’t entirely disagree. However, this way I’ll probably reach that 1000 people in a few hours. That’s still pretty good.
Just for that I won’t be reading this post.
I read your post.
Damn you!
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Hence how these crazy conspiracy theories can gain traction
Helps to keep in mind Pareto distributions. You usually have to calculate them for individual social media systems, but a common rule of thumb on reddit was between 100-1000 between steps.
If 1 person commented, 10-100 people may have upvoted, and 1000-10000 may have clicked and not engaged further.
For every one post, there are 10-100 commenters, 100-1000 upvoters, and 1000-100k+ viewers.
wonder what that’s like on lemmy
I think if you run a server you might have the data to do the analysis.
It’s not the same, because most aren’t paying attention.
It’s more like going to a street corner and saying it. Wait an hour or so, and a thousand people will hear it, but most will ignore you and forget about it
You’re not going to start arguing with the audience.
atleast
Not a word.
Says who? The word police?
It’s also terrifying. Especially when you open your inbox 12 hours later and you see a bunch of comments poking holes in your arguments or making fun the ideas that sounded really good in your head. When you write something online, you never know if you’re going to end up in a hurricane like that.
Haha someone smoked a joint
