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Eugen Rochko

Mastodon has gained 106,723 monthly active users since the end of March (when Elon bought 9.2% of Twitter's shares). 93,603 are new accounts. Overall that's a 42% increase in Mastodon's MAU.

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Chris Trottier

@Gargron Interactions are a lot like the early days of Twitter.

Mx Autumn :elephpant:

@Gargron I remember there used to be a bit that showed daily graphs of active/new users and posts by hour.

Konstantinos Kadoglou

@Gargron Can we look for trending hashtags or trenting posts of other instances?
If not is it possible to be done?

Deadly Headshot

@Gargron Have the Local and Federated timelines been disabled on .Social or can they just not keep up with the influx? I'm just seeing emptiness here... :cwy:

Julian Yaman

@Gargron Hopefully they all stay on Mastodon 😄​ great work you all are doing!

♨ Feuerwächter

@Gargron
So there’re missing just a few new users to top twitter.

Kat Marchán 🐈

@Gargron what's activity like, though? I'm concerned that a lot of those accounts are panic-parks, rather than people who end up actually staying and engaging. It still feels like a bit of a desert out here sometimes.

PimpDaddyWrinkles

@Gargron What do you get a guy like Elon as a thank you gift, when he pays $44B for a toy.

Rush01

@Gargron I think i like this app much better than Twitter and am getting use to it.

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Cih🧿

@Gargron It's very good! :pensive_party_blob:

That Weird Guy

@Gargron I am so happy to hear this. Especially after #TruthSocial tried to steal your code as their own.

Cheers!

Thomas Cameron

@Gargron so loving what y'all are doing with the platform. Keep up the great work!

Dominik Baur

@Gargron Der eine zahlt 44 Milliarden, die anderen kriegen 42 Prozent. Deal!

Mauro xLontrax Toselli

@Gargron well done guys! Now it’s time to bear true to your ideals and philosophy! Thank you for your hard work!

OkazuYuri

@Gargron Great. NOW, make sure you actually protect marginalized people and recognize harassment and you may keep them. Be another "free speech means straight white people can be awful to everyone" site and you won't last 6 months.

QzillaBlue

@Gargron “fish-sticks & chill” oil painting please follow for more of my work. 🖖🏿🖖🏿🖖🏿#cats #art #pokemon

Robelea

@Gargron proud to be one of them, free speech not hate speech 👍

Emma's Lens ✔️

@Gargron I joined because of Elon's possibly taking over. Glad I did.

Don L

@Gargron Time for a Donate Button on the right side. Many would like to help but don't want to be sysadmins.

Partikelchen

@Gargron Es bleibt zu hoffen, dass #Mastodon von dem verschont bleibt, was bei #Twitter täglich zu beobachten ist: #Hetze, #Hass, Gewaltphantasien und politisch- u/o wirtschaftlich motivierte gezielte #Desinformationen. Problematisch wäre dies eben für die ganzen Freiwilligen, die die Infrastruktur betreiben und/oder versuchen zu moderieren, was sie zu Zielscheiben von Hass machen könnte von den jeweiligen angeblichen „Opfern der Zensur“.

Eugen Rochko

We have now collectively gained 112,413 monthly active users in the last few days, and 149,720 compared to the end of March. That's a 62% increase. Total now at 384K MAU across Mastodon.

ozoned

@Gargron

All thanks to fantastic freedom loving folks like yourself!

Thank you so much for helping be a solution! You could have kept the code, but you've help set us all free!

:-D

Ombra 🔵🌻

@Gargron Absolutely wonderful to hear.

Perhaps this is the silver lining of Musk buying Twitter.

Domi #StandingWithUkraine

@Gargron i just came here and like it so far. Keep up the good work!

Winston Smith

@Gargron hope it will grow more and with positive vibes.

Partikelchen

@Gargron I hope, that Fraunhofer SIT will join too soon ;)

JFI

@Gargron Should be more in the near future. ;) Do you have any total user numbers as well?

Gold-Tinged Excrement

@Gargron how long do you predict you will hold these users? What proportion do you think be here in 3 months? I suspect many will be returning to twitter shortly once the dopamine of rebelling runs dry

Maria Liv

@Gargron Maybe you should write a “Thank you” card to Elon?

Jef Poskanzer :batman:

@Gargron I found my old table of Mastodon users/instances/statuses from a few years ago and updated it. Was surprised to see that the number of instances is much lower - over 5000 in 2019 vs. 1089 today. Is this what you see too?

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Eugen Rochko

@Fairaday No, please see the thread, I emphasize this isn't just for the mastodon.social server but across the network.

Ofmine

@Gargron and I guess more will come. Brave yourself. 😉

Abby

@Gargron
I am working hard to make a lot of them feel very welcome, explain a few things. Trying to smooth the culture shock a little.

do_foss

@Gargron Thank you for supporting a free democratic exchange. We try to contribute with our initiaitve for #freesoftware.

Shubham

@Gargron Hi Eugen. Is an official Android app on the roadmap?

Rob Napier

@Gargron I keep imagining you, late at night, staring at the ceiling and thinking about that moment when the first 10M follower celeb tweets “I think I’ll try out Mastodon…” What happens when Harry Styles notices this little world? 😬

guigui3000

@gargron Well done! This is an amazing place to hang out on the web!

Mark Britten

@Gargron wow! Hopefully it carries on growing (and doesn't break your servers too much 😂 )

Beardapalooza

@Gargron is this just at mastodon.social, or across the Mastodon fediverse?

Jeroen Baert

@Gargron thank you so much for all the hard work!

Eugen Rochko

Got today's numbers! A 28,239 MAU increase in a single day. Now at 141K since Monday, and 176K since March. We've crossed over the 413K MAU mark on the Mastodon part of the fediverse!

ccamara

@Gargron Excellent news! Is there any way to retrieve those figures (and also historic ones)? I know there's fedidb.org/software but they "just" provide a daily snapshot.

Marvin Sequera 👨🏼‍💻

@Gargron congrats I am new here and so far everything has been outstanding, great job.

Buntnuk

@Gargron
I am almost sure that tonight the numbers will increase again a lot. 😉

Thomas - voll die Tröte!

@Gargron Proud to be one of them. Any newcomer older than me (soon 72)?😈

Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇴🌻

@Gargron I keep checking the numbers on the about page on the instance I'm on. It is growing steadily.

It is a very different experience here now compared to when I first made an account in 2019. This time I think I will stick around. I want an alternative to the bird app, even if I do stay on both.

Nacho :mastodon:

@gargron Brace yourself - #ZDFMagazin tonight might be add turbo boost to the numbers! 🙈🥳🙈
Thank you for your hard work and keep it up!

Maria Liv

@Gargron
I just inactivated my last twitter account. Jesus, it's really bad over there now. I mean REALLY bad. Remember the movie Gremlins, when the monsters party? It's like that. Free hate speech and the clear intention of letting hate and violence grow. This development is incredibly worrying.

I DMd some journalists and friends about Mastodon, cleared out my last posts and left for good. Such a relief. I am so incredibly thankful to have discovered this place. Thank you @Gargron 💗

Kyle Rankin

@Gargron Congratulations Eugen. I know you have put so much time and effort into this and I'm so happy to see this current wave.

ilyess

@Gargron Congrats! 🎉 Looking forward to the 1M MAU milestone.

CarP Art

@Gargron I’m one of them. Happy I have found this place.

Robin Lea

@Gargron Counter.social has been out of service trying to deal with their influx as well. No idea what the numbers are though.

Eugen Rochko

@robinleaf Counter.social is just another right-wing fork of Mastodon that disables federation features and puts basic features behind a paywall. It's not part of this network and I do not care about it.

Robin Lea

@Gargron I was just commenting because it pertains to the large number of people that are currently leaving Twitter. I heard about that before I ever heard of Mastodon. I don't know anything about it's affiliations. 🤷🏻‍♀️

DeeplyAware

@Gargron deactivated my bird account. What a joke. Will not give that clown my support.

dick_turpin

@Gargron finally, that' what I wanted to know a few a couple of days ago.

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