Gregory's ServerMastodon is benefitting from the #X exodus (eXodus?) too: The official app downloads are up 47% on iOS and 17% on Android. Sign-ups are up approx. 27% compared to previous month with about 90K new accounts, while the MAU has jumped to 894K (across all Mastodon servers).
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 @Gargron Nice to see it's not just Threads and Bluesky, good for the internet as a whole to not stick to one! We may not be the biggest by numbers yet, but Mastodon (and the fediverse) has proven itself to be an effective and reliable communications platform over the course of the last 8 years, and does not depend on venture capital to survive. The #fediverse is the future.  @Gargron Would be kinda cool if the future had some of the features all the other platforms have today, though. I spent 25% of my life working on Mastodon. It's kind of wild when you think about it. When I started, Google+ was still around. We're doing what one of the most resourceful companies in the world couldn't do. It's not easy. It's always easier to just build A Website, then slap some ads on it. But the fediverse is the long game.   I'm telling you, my experience here has been amazing. I have no reason to go anywhere else. I love the dynamic of the #fediverse I have no complains. You cant get a more organic experience than here in the fediverse.   @Gargron Thx for all your efforts. I was late to the game, but later, I believe, I will still be reognized as an early adopter. More and more people understand what's it all about. "Die Enge der Zeit ist die Wurzel des Bösen" (Hans Blumenberg) Soziale Netzwerke können nicht beliebig schnell wachsen. "Das Fediverse - die stille Social-Media-Revolution" (Zitat @Sascha )  @Gargron this is how I see it too. No matter what happens: Mastodon will always be around. Twitter can just go offline any day now. @Gargron or… wouldn’t do. Nothing about google+ made intuitive sense, but it did make you feel trapped in a corporate hamster wheel with no sense of reward or connection  @Gargron Thank you! I am enjoying interacting with people from all over the world on Mastodon. I appreciate what you've created!      @Gargron appreciate your efforts put into the alternative view of what true social media can be. Any update on the #Plushtodon s for the U.S. (North America)? @Gargron Hey bud, keep building. @Gargron Mastodon (respectively ActivityPub) can outlive things like Google+ the same way SMTP outlived about a bazillion messengers already: Because it's a protocol, not a product. A protocol can't be just canceled or enshittified beyond recognition when investors are unhappy. As long as anybody is willing to run software that supports the protocol, it will survive practically forever. Which is pretty awesome I think. :)   @Gargron If you ever want to hear a good story about social media, there’s a surprising amount of Xooglers/Googlers still very salty about the failure of Google+.  @Gargron Thank you and every contributor for all the work you do to keep Mastodon going (and growing!)  I wonder if not being the biggest is a blessing, really. Those huge numbers come with some significant downsides, such as becoming a much more attractive target for bots and scammers. @Gargron Thank you for your good work! I've only been here a while, but I've come to believe that Mastodon and the Fediverse are the only hopes for social media as the gathering place for the free exchange of talents and ideas that we idealistically imagined with dial up BBSs back in the 80s. Makes me sad to see people wake up enough to finally leave X and blindly follow the other sheep to Threads and Bluesky. Mastodon is the way.  You have done a great job with it. Any chance we could get public lists and an improved DM method that doesn't confuse the masses?  @Gargron while I agree with your statement, your willingness to cooperate with Meta troubles me deeply  @Gargron It is said that people always do the right thing… after trying everything else first. I wish everyone well on Bluesky, although to me it feels like they secured their AOL Keyword and not their domain. I see this ending with Bluesky switching to Mastodon standards and just becoming another federated server.  @Gargron Good news! I've been advocating for people to bridge if they're comfortable with it; it's one of those things Twitter specifically didn't allow so I'm hoping people can see how nice it is to be out of a closed platform.   @Gargron  @Gargron I'm so impressed with what you've accomplished, especially on a shoestring budget. Keep up the great work!  @Gargron Mastodon is an inspiration of a better future for our online social spaces. Now is the time to work hard and polish what needs to be done to compete with Bsky. What do you think is the biggest feature/quirk holding Mastodon back from the mainstream? Google Trends is showing a problem here. @Gargron All I've heard about this week is Bluesky and Threads but nothing about Mastodon, so this is very comforting. I truly wish more people would sign up here and give it a try. Granted I'm told the same thing about the others which I don't have accounts on lol.  @Gargron, yes, thank you for your foresight/tireless efforts. Getting user signups is important but not sufficient to help this platform take off. We need more organizations/people with large followings to set up servers. This has a compounding effect. These organizations/individuals, in turn, invite their communities to join them. This will help new end users find a comfortable home very quickly (one of the big hurdles for many) before they venture out into the wider fediverse.    @Gargron it's November 2022 all over again, there's a good amount of people that'll stay   Yep, slow and steady WILL WIN THE RACE 😅  @Gargron It isn't just there. @threads is seeing a fair number of defections, and lots of early-adopters are noticing huge erosions in their "follower" counts     @Gargron do you have any numbers for the connected Fediverse? Blockiverse instances don't add much of value. @Gargron I hope so. This is a good platform for technical people and topics but most of my normal friends are joining bluesky, and so far no adoption for the bluesky bridge  @Gargron Measured how? What's included and what isn't? * Is it just vanilla Mastodon, or does it include variants like Glitch-Soc and Hometown? * Is it all servers, or just those that opt-in/ don't opt-out? * Is it all servers found by crawling, or from requests to include instances? These details matter to how we weight fediverse stats like this.   @Gargron What do you think about the idea of #mastadon servers supporting #atproto in addition to #activitypub? By the way, thank you very much for your work and vision! #fediverse |
@Gargron MAU?