Is mastodon ,or the fediverse in general, growing? (lemmings.world)

submitted 1 day ago by PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Life is always preparing for the next cataclysm but fediverse is preparing for corporations hemorrhaging users. I keep looing at numbers and different sources show that there's a peak in MAU when Elon buys twitter, but then slowly falls over time. I'm curious if anyone has noticed a drop off, or if the peak had some crazy amount of posts and comments?

side note: I'm trying to help build up the fediverse streamer community get the people that want to watch streamer with people that want to watch streamer, but I have only noticed minor improvements. like streamers are connecting with other streamers, and one account has said that they got a boost. nothing to suggest that new members have joined from outside the fediverse streamer.

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[-] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 17 points 1 day ago

I have noticed a lot of new users. My small instance went from a little over 50 to 150 since the start of this year. Being added to join-lemmy probably helped with that. Circumstantial evidence, I know. But worth noting.

[-] jason@engage.gogogoals.com 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

And this is your only comment. Congrats on setting up an instance.

EDIT: Apparently my instance hasn't been completely federated yet and I can't see all the comments yet.

Thanks @TORFdot0 for the response.

[-] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Oh, we've been around for 1,5 years. Just never been big enough to get on the join-lemmy.org page.

Thanks though!

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

This is the only comment your instance knows about because of the way federation works. I can see his comment history goes back 1.7 years

[-] jason@engage.gogogoals.com 2 points 22 hours ago

Thanks. Good to know.

[-] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 3 points 21 hours ago

You might want to set up a federation account on your instance, and add it on https://lemmy-federate.com/ for easy federation

[-] jason@engage.gogogoals.com 2 points 20 hours ago

That says my instance is not registered

[-] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 2 points 19 hours ago

You can register it. It will send you a dm on lemmy to validate. No password needed

[-] jason@engage.gogogoals.com 2 points 17 hours ago

I got logged in with my admin account. Looks to be a waiting process. So wait I shall do. Thank you for the help!

[-] jason@engage.gogogoals.com 2 points 20 hours ago

Ok. Thank you. I'm going to see into that when I get home

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

I think being added to join-lemmy definitely helps but people that are already on Lemmy aren’t going to that site so it definitely shows that we are growing (or at least replacing people at a decent rate)

Sounds like you have a good instance, congrats on the growth

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