Total user count is a vanity metric. Monthly active users is more relevant and on that we are still way off from the ATH of 2.1 million from 2023.
Also, with the nature of the Fediverse where one single person can have multiple accounts, even this metric might be bogus.
As opposed to other social media platforms like reddit where you can only have one, right? 😜
I didn't say that reddit's metrics were any better so your gotcha makes no sense.
And Switzerland just closed their instance in part due to what they claim is a declining user base.
I've only seen Mastodon slowly creeping up, not decline.
Is that total users, or active users?
Total users will ~~never~~ rarely decline.
They can. Servers that are delisted or go offline are removed from the counts.
I knew I shouldn't have used the word "never", although I was thinking that only "deleted" accounts would drop the total count. That's also a good point.
But it still seems unlikely that there will be a LOT or cases where the total number drops by a proportionately large number, unless something really bad happens (or there's some big initiative at some point to remove inactive or not accounts)
The more important stat - the one that people would be much more likely to be talking about seeing a "decline" in, in cases like this - is "active" users.
I was thinking more about the frequent cases of Mastodon instances shutting down because the admins got either tired of dealing with moderation or unable to afford the increasing operational costs. Seems like every week we get at least one instance announcing they will close up.
Suck it Bluesky
Happy you’re all here!
happy to be part of the fediverse
I was told just last month that the fediverse had 60,000ish people. How the fuck did it go from 60k to 12Mil in 1 month???
I really like it here, it feels like early Reddit after the dog exodus.
Autocorrect, my mortal enemy!
Lemmy is almost at 400k users alone. (391,247 ATM of writing). Its probably higher as there are servers that dont federate.
ATM? Active ... Monthly? Can't make out what it stands for...
At The Moment
It's mostly Mastodon. (Shoutout to @RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works for posting the link to FediDB)
Misskey? 🤔 I heard it's something Japanese? So probably a lot of Japanese fediverse users use it? I don't think I've seen somebody from misskey in my interactions with the fediverse. Are they self-contained or something?
Misskey is like Mastodon but better, yes it's Japanese. There are a lot of Misskey forks that are probably being counted in the Other
It surprises me a little, because on some instances there seems to be a lot of power users/tech influencer types, but not a lot of engagement between smaller accounts. Active users is around 1 in 12, which is again higher than expected, so maybe it's just me/Hackyderm?
That's probably just Lemmy active user you've heard, as the majority of user for fediverse is from mastodon. 12m is total user for the whole fediverse, active user is around 1m.
Sauce from here: https://fedidb.org/
Note, different websites have different total user counts. fedidb kinda goes up and down and I dont understand why.
But for example fedidb states 7,494,053 total Mastodon users whereas https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount states 15,467,187 accounts Pretty big difference. So there is probably much more accounts than what fedidb has. Or other counts are off by a large factor. Either way, lots of new faces in the fediverse! If anyone knows why theres such as discrepancy, let us know!
I completely forgot but apparently I joined Lemmy exactly one year ago lol
Happy cakeday?
Is there any way to see older data?
That's pretty dang cool, and 12 is my favourite number too :-)
What's your favourite number?
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