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Johannes Ernst

@johannes.ernst.threads.net.ap.brid.gy

Technologist, founder, organizer. Talking about the future of the fediverse and the world. [bridged from threads.net/@johannes.ernst on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Johannes Ernst @johannes.ernst.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

From today's Open Social Awards ceremony.

Photo of the award stage with moderator and members of the jury. Audrey Tang and I joined by video.

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Johannes Ernst @johannes.ernst.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

I am at loss for words. From the SpaceX S1 filing. Can anybody even remotely believe this?

Chart with claimed total addressable market.

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Johannes Ernst @johannes.ernst.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

I'm kinda flabbergasted that all of a sudden, a very prominent "Fediverse" item has shown up in a prime location in the Threads UI. It leads to all the posts of accounts outside of Threads that I'm following from within Threads via ActivityPub.

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Johannes Ernst @johannes.ernst.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025

One thing I love about elections in California is how many options there are to cast your ballot. I chose to vote in person more than a week ahead of voting day. A certain sign of how much a party or governments supports democracy is whether they make it easier or harder to vote.

Photo by Johannes Ernst on October 26, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'OF SANTA COUNTY COUNTY CLARA CLARA I VOTED मैंने मतदान किया ខ្ញុំបានបោះឆ្នោត B BUMOTOKO导亚效 AKO 투표했어요 投票しました投票しました　TOIDABAU ĐÃ BÂU TÔIĐÃBẨU τοι YO YOVOT我已投票 OVOTÉ VOTE 我已投票'.

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Johannes Ernst @johannes.ernst.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2025

So if it is true, as I posted yesterday, that it costs about $1-$2 per user per month to run a social network at scale ... ... and if we wanted a big part of humanity to be able to escape the walled gardens ... we need just a bit of money. And donations. And volunteer hours. Totalling a mere ...

Photo by Johannes Ernst on August 26, 2025. May be a graphic of poster and text.

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Johannes Ernst @johannes.ernst.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025

What would it cost to run the fediverse at scale? With billions instead of millions of users? What does it cost to run a social network anyway? According to the annual reports of two companies that should know, the comparable seems to be about $1-$2 per user per […] [Original post on threads.com]

Photo by Johannes Ernst on August 25, 2025. May be a graphic of poster and text that says 'What does it cost to run a social network? Public company comparables* Daily active users Twitter (2021 annual report) Revenue 217m m Core cost** $5.1 5.1b/ye year $ 1.95 user month Meta (2024 annual report) 3350 m $3b/yea $1.15/user user month $ 165 b/ year $ $4.10/user/month 4.10/ user month $62b/year year $1.54/user/month $1.54/ user month $ (*)atmarketprices prices )atmarket **)cost revenue halfo fR&D G&A. Excludes marketing sales taxes. #tecececetetetetet/etet Assuming half R&D ads, nal for user features.'.

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Johannes Ernst @johannes.ernst.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2025

The world we have -- in social media, and more broadly in tech -- vs the world we want. Does this look about right?

Photo by Johannes Ernst on August 22, 2025. May be a graphic of poster and text.

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Johannes Ernst @johannes.ernst.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025

7% of people already are getting their news from AI, and it's not even something the AI companies are pushing. Given this incredible quote from Elon, and the blend of AI and social media he and others are working on, how long until the "news" that arrives with people is entirely fictional? 1/3

Photo by Johannes Ernst on August 21, 2025. May be a Twitter screenshot of text that says 'Truth is losing 75% 72% PROPORTION THAT USED EACH AS SOURCE SOURCEOFNEWS OF NEWS 69% TRUMP BUMP (all boats rise) THE LAST WEEK (2013-2025)- -USA 50% 47% SECOND TRUMP BUMP? (just social/video benefits) 25% 27% 54% 50% 48% Elon Musk 0% 2013 We will use Grok 5(mayb พงทงนเน reasoning. rewrite the entire corpus missing informationandedahtinforrarc Q3. Q3.Which,ifany.ofthe Which, fany, ofthe 15% AI 7% Wwhich nas advanced human knowledge. adding Then retrain on that. 2025 tes/apps Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data. atafbr2014Theremasasamplngandwe wase sampling ata 2014. There 30.8M 8M Source http -americans-top-news-source/'.

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Johannes Ernst @johannes.ernst.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025

Social media has become the most used source of news. Commercial social media that is -- the one that has an opaque algorithm between you and the news that optimizes for the business benefit of the platform, not you getting unbiased news. What could possibly go wrong? 1/2

Photo by Johannes Ernst on August 20, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'Truth is losing 75% 72% PROPORTION THAT USED EACH AS SOURCE SOURCEOFNEWS OF NEWS 69% TRUMP BUMP (all boats rise) THE LAST WEEK (2013-2025)- -USA 50% 47% SECOND TRUMP BUMP? (just social/video benefits) 25% 27% 54% 50% 48% 0% 2013 2015 2017 TV Print 2019 ollowing have 15% 14% 7% used 2021 Social and video networks week 2023 source news? Base: Total sample 2025 Onlinenewssite sites/apps eachyea 2000. Note: data 2014. There sampling Source: xetse/s.s/s.eeas waab/atama'.

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Johannes Ernst @johannes.ernst.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2025

How big is the open social web, the fediverse, #bluesky etc compared to the big commercial platforms? It's a bit sobering. From my recent talk "From millions to billions -- a plausible narrative for how to grow the open social web."

Photo by Johannes Ernst on August 19, 2025. May be a graphic of poster, screen and text that says 'Social Media Landscape Social networking Facebook Linkedin Instagram Media sharing YouTube TikTok x Micro- blogging Reddit ~0.1% 3.4billion 3.4 illic billio on Meta MetaDAUs DAUs Mastodon+PixelFed Mastodon- PixelFed +theentireFediverse the entire Fediverse Bluesky, +Bluesky,ATProto ATProto 5.5billion internet internetusers users 8 8billion+ humans Sources: Sources:Wikipedia Wi Vikipedia'.

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Johannes Ernst @johannes.ernst.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2025

I'm not sure I like this type of notification on #threads that a Fediverse user I'm following has "posted a thread". Is this good for anything? Why not render it like all other notifications from inside Threads? #Threads

Photo by Johannes Ernst on July 21, 2025. May be a Twitter screenshot of text that says 'Activity j12t@j12t.social 7m Posteda a thread j12t@j12t.social 19h Posteda a thread j12t@j12t.social 20h Posted a thread j12t@j1 j12t@j12t.social 1d Posted a thread j12t@j12t.social 3d Posted a thread j12t@j12t.social 3d Posted a thread'.

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Johannes Ernst @johannes.ernst.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2024

CNN: “Putin considers Russia expansion. If he’s serious, a territorial expansion into Ukrainian, Georgia and Moldova would rival the Louisiana Purchase.” Oops, I must have gotten the imperialist wrong here. And @cnn, are you completely out of your mind?

Photo by Johannes Ernst on December 23, 2024. May be a Twitter screenshot of 1 person, the Oval Office and text that says 'Trump considers US expansion Rebeoca Noble/Getty Images If he's serious, a territorial expansion into Panama, Greenland and Canada would rival the Louisiana Purchase What's the history of the Panama Canal, and why is Trump threatening to retake control of it? •Trump rails against transgender people, makes threats about Denali and the Panama Canal 1:26 •Analysis: Bonds forged during a wartime Christmas 83 years ago could soon be at risk'.

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