Gregory's ServerMastodon 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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 @Gargron I remember there used to be a bit that showed daily graphs of active/new users and posts by hour. @Gargron Can we look for trending hashtags or trenting posts of other instances?  @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: Yes, but please @Gargron, please, https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18128  @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. @Gargron What do you get a guy like Elon as a thank you gift, when he pays $44B for a toy.
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@Gargron I am so happy to hear this. Especially after #TruthSocial tried to steal your code as their own. Cheers!  @Gargron well done guys! Now it’s time to bear true to your ideals and philosophy! Thank you for your hard work! @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“.  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. 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 @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  @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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@Fairaday No, please see the thread, I emphasize this isn't just for the mastodon.social server but across the network. @Gargron Thank you for supporting a free democratic exchange. We try to contribute with our initiaitve for #freesoftware. @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? 😬 @Gargron wow! Hopefully it carries on growing (and doesn't break your servers too much 😂 ) According to #TheGuardian, a follower shift in #Twitter is taking place right now: #rightwing followers rising, #leftwing followers quitting. I suspended my account today. Don’t like that #Musk #Smell …  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!  @Gargron Excellent news! Is there any way to retrieve those figures (and also historic ones)? I know there's https://fedidb.org/software but they "just" provide a daily snapshot. @Gargron congrats I am new here and so far everything has been outstanding, great job.  @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.  @gargron Brace yourself - #ZDFMagazin tonight might be add turbo boost to the numbers! 🙈🥳🙈 @Gargron 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 💗 @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. @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. |
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