So something I've seen recently that perhaps demonstrates the lack of good platform interop here on the #fediverse ...
Over on #lemmy the source of the most #mastodon posts for me is a hackernews bot that is posting hackernews posts, which, sometimes, are links back to techy mastodon posts. That is, hackernews (+ a bot) are bringing in more mastodon content than ... mastodon and activitypub.
Top three #lemmy instances (lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, beehaw.org) are all basically the same size. With #kbin 's kbin.social and fedia.io (run by infosec.exchange) in the same range.
I experienced it today looking for #NBA communities for the #nbaplayoffs , and it seems the biggest community right now (after literally 1day) is on lemmy.world not lemmy.ml
Top three #lemmy instances (lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, beehaw.org) are all basically the same size. With #kbin 's kbin.social and fedia.io (run by infosec.exchange) in the same range.
I experienced it today looking for #NBA communities for the #nbaplayoffs , and it seems the biggest community right now (after literally 1day) is on lemmy.world not lemmy.ml
@fediversenews So poking around fedidb.org, I thought I'd do some back-of-napkin analysis (ie procrastination).
* 50% of #fediverse users are on the largest 20 instances * ~50% of MAU are on the largest 28 * 77% users are on instances with >10k users (largest 130) * 73% MAUs on >10k instances * Of largest 20 instances, user growth/mnth (trend over prev 3mnths) is ~1-2% ... with 2 major outliers:
- misskey.io: 30% (See @atomicpoet to follow the *key story) - #mastodon.social(!!): 5%
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@fediversenews So poking around fedidb.org, I thought I'd do some back-of-napkin analysis (ie procrastination).
* 50% of #fediverse users are on the largest 20 instances * ~50% of MAU are on the largest 28 * 77% users are on instances with >10k users (largest 130) * 73% MAUs on >10k instances * Of largest 20 instances, user growth/mnth (trend over prev 3mnths) is ~1-2% ... with 2 major outliers:
Big surprise for me was how much mastodon.social is growing (especially given the tension about its dominance).
It's current trend is to grow by the equivalent of the 23rd largest instance per month while most (ie largest) instances are growing by 2% per month (ie a few thousand, which, guessing, would be something like the 300th largest instance or so ... ie small).