Mastodon, the Twitter alternative, surpasses 2 million users https://www.techspotting.com/2019/02/23/mastodon-the-twitter-alternative-surpasses-2-million-users/ #mastodon #fediverse #socialmedia @Gargron @mastodonusercount
#Pixelfed got a mention (@dansup)
#Fedilab got a mention (@tom79)
#Friendica got a mention
#Pleroma got a mention
#Toot! got a mention (@WAHa_06x36)
These articles about #Mastodon are slowly catching up to the fact that they are actually articles about the #fediverse!
Mastodon.social doesn’t federate with everyone, nor knows all the users so the count bot is known to be far from reality.
https://fediverse.network/reports/2018
It's 2 millions accounts, not 2 millions users.
Others services give "active users" figures, with a definition of what is an "active users".
Less than 10% of mastodon accounts are really active.
We have stats of active users on big instance and we can extrapolate.
https://mastodon.social/api/v1/instance/activity
@hawaii
The real sign that the fediverse is becoming a force to be reckoned with: spammers are starting to hit it hard.
@Gargron @mastodonusercount
@hawaii hmm, according to https://fediverse.network, which actually counts this stuff, mastodon instances only have 1985885 user IDs. Did 15000 people go offline?
@hawaii @Gargron @mastodonusercount *people (let's stop referring to people as users) no disrespect meant.
@hawaii 👍👍👍👍