Gregory's Server199,430 is the number of new users across different Mastodon servers since October 27, along with 437 new servers. This bring last day's total to 608,837 active users, which is without precedent the highest it's ever been for Mastodon and the fediverse.
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@haikushack @Gargron Hello! I can see your post and I’m on another server :verify: @IgnisIncendio Hello there! So what's the difference between that server and the one I'm in? Hi from a completely different server. Our servers are run on completely different hardware than your server, and have completely different moderation teams and generally a different culture between our respective local users. @iiogama @IgnisIncendio I'm starting to understand everything! I might join another server later, but I see that if you have the Federated Timeline set up properly, it won't be necessary, as we can all communicate without a hitch. @haikushack @iiogama True! Your server is your “window to your Fediverse”, your local culture. It’s quite cozy here. I really like this article, it’s kinda long but it answers a lot of the questions I had! https://wordsmith.social/elilla/a-futuristic-mastodon-introduction-for-2021 Exactly! You should also feel comfortable moving to a different server, if you happen to find one that seems cool to you. Mastodon has easy migration tools for moving servers in the settings. @haikushack, the idea is that if you migrate from one server to another, you're shutting down your account on the original server. If you choose to have multiple accounts on different servers (which is a valid option), then you may want to use a different app than the official app. Toot! on iOS for example allows multiple accounts and you can switch between them pretty darn easily. @haikushack, happy I could help! I can definitely see the similarities to IRC (which is still around and active, if you want to go down another rabbit hole, lol)  @iiogama @haikushack @IgnisIncendio from what I understand, I could join multiple servers…I am happy here though. @haikushack My server is full of queer + techy people! This means that a lot of the content I see is quite tailored towards me, even when a lot of the content is from other servers. That’s because our admin helps block the more hostile servers (from our POV, so that includes things like transphobic servers), and also the people in my server tend to follow tech + queer stuff (which appears in my federated timeline). Finally, we can also talk to each other via the local timeline! @IgnisIncendio Oh, so it's better to join specific servers to have a more tailored experience? I guess it means having several browser windows opened? @haikushack While you *could* join multiple servers for different interests, there’s no need to do that ^^ I compare it a lot to Twitter because that’s what a lot of us are familiar to 😛 Joining multiple servers is basically the same as having multiple Twitter accounts. But if you want to have one account that is multi-interest, just choose any one of the servers that have the culture you like. For example, join the server of your main interest (but you aren’t restricted to it) @IgnisIncendio I love it. Need to convince a pal to move from CounterSocial, defederated. @haikushack @Gargron yes, assuming you have federation set up properly. Mastodon is like Email and twitter had a baby: you might be on Gmail and I might use outlook but they both work together for the most part! Same with Mastodon servers! @haikushack right since you can interact with all other servers. However note that you cannot log in to other servers directly. @HeliumVisionary Yes, this I have figured out already. 😜 Is there a list of specific servers that we can join somewhere? @haikushack not exactly. You can follow, reply, and favorite other people on other servers, but your account can't "join" them. Think of it like email. A @hotmail address can email a @yahoo address, but you cannot log into Yahoo with a Hotmail account. @haikushack no, you shouldn't. There's still some clunky parts (just like searching for users on Facebook won't give you people on Twitter, searching across servers is hard to implement and the UI for cross-server interactions is definitely imperfect) but most of this can be fixed by more investment! Realistically, most people will gravitate to a few big servers but just like email nothing's stopping you from starting your own (which is what I did!)  @haikushack hello! yes and yes, mostly. the servers are also known as “instances” (when people have names not ending with mastodon.social) and they are run by other people than eugen. instances can “defederate” from each other, which means that posts from one can’t reach another, but those are moderation decisions and not as common. mostly, all instances can talk to each other. for example, I’m posting to you from another instance! you could also move your account to another if you wanted @haikushack that’s why it’s known as federated or decentralized social media! it’s very cool. means I can be on a small instance a friend runs and still talk to one run by someone else, or that I can find small communities specific to my taste but not be cut off from others. also means when there are influxes of users to mastodon.social that other instances continue on fine. also, fediverse isn’t just mastodon (which is the name of the software) - there are other softwares that talk together too @haikushack it does make it a bit confusing for newcomers, though! definitely a different paradigm than other services @haikushack sweet! there are also federated alternatives to many of those - pleroma is Instagram, bookwyrm is Goodreads, there’s been talk of building a federated event service, etc. lots of cool stuff built on the activitypub protocol, which links it all together @haikushack @christa here's a website I know that has soo many fediverses listed: https://fedidb.org/software  @haikushack @Gargron anyone that runs the Mastodon software on their server, is running an “instance“ of Mastodon. Mastodon.social is one of many instances. Much, like how you can be on Gmail and still send email to someone on Hotmail, you can follow someone on a different instance from your instance on mastodon.social. Check out your “federated timeline" Those are posts from people on all of the different instances that your instance is connected to.  @haikushack @Gargron generally yes, they are all federated (can talk to each other). There are exceptions where admins have blocked other instances/servers by choice (defederated). @haikushack a lot of the time, instances block other instances because users are putting out hate, spam, or other unwanted content  @haikushack @Gargron yes and yes. I’m on Norden.social, not Mastodon.social, but I can see your post, and I could also add you as someone I follow. It’s more like e-mail — some are on Gmail, some are on Outlook, etc., but when you type the full address, you can reach them nonetheless.
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@Gargron can you give us a split per country? I feel there may be some peaks due to Mexican users joining this waggon in yhe last few hours @Gargron that's awesome! Great to see more people interested in the fediverse/decentralized social media.  @AppApe that’s a lot of new users and not that many active users :) Seems like a good sign for thw future @Gargron amazing! genuine question: how are you able to get these stats given the decentralised nature of mastodon? is there some centralised reporting across the whole fediverse to you? Not sure exactly what Eugen is using, but the user counts are easily accessible via the API and it wouldn't be too hard to run a calculation for all the instances which federate with mastodon.social, which is most of them. Won't be (totally) complete, but I'm not sure Eugen is claiming that. @Gargron wow. I don't know if I should feel guilty or very very lucky. Just glad to be here. Unfortunate I didn't know about it sooner. Much prefer!   @Gargron activitypub is a very cool technology would be cool to see more sites pop up using it @Gargron How does it feel to have a site that is bigger than Twitter, and twice as popular for the right reasons? Congratulations! Well earned, and thanks. 訳：10月27日からのMastodonサーバーの新規ユーザー数は199,430人、新規サーバー数は437台となりました。この結果、前日のアクティブユーザー数は608,837人となり、MastodonとFediverseにとって過去最高となりました。 @Gargron Just wishing the administrators of all the instances don't allow bullies nor harassment of any kind. @Gargron nice to hear :-) schön zu hören......das wir bestimmt noch mehr in naher zukunft wie schaut es aus mit einer blockchainanbindung mit dazugehörigen token? nur mal so eine idee.... @Gargron Please take a break soon!  @Gargron is there an architecture overview you like of the platform? Knocking around, I didn't see one. @Gargron thank you for letting us own our data while connecting with the world! @Gargron Something I wondered. Is it possible to make a private server? That is not visible but you can get invited to? Does it matter which server I’m on ?  @Gargron is it possible to see the list of names of the new servers? Searching for keywords does not work so well in my experience @Gargron Very cool - all thanks to you #mastereugen ! all accounts related to #randompolitics I follow on Twitter in NL have already joined. Just not too many #football #soccer fans amongst those 608,837 users yet. But football fans (even the more socially engaged) are probably not early adopters. @Gargron On behalf of the Mastodon community, "Thank you for your service Mr Elon Musk"! 😜 @Gargron It's still only a very small fraction of the estimated ~300 million active Twitter users... Still a lot to do! @Gargron This is great news,but it seems that ppl aren’t so active on Mastodon. Some have thousands of followers,but yet ,no likes and no comments,that is strange. @Gargron how did you get this number? How can you count users on other servers? @Gargron great news! Hopefully this growth continues and people actually start being active!  @Gargron That's awesome. Need to preserve the momentum and continue to improve the user experience and discovery. Especially on mobile. Got to suspect that Elon Musk is probably the best recruiter for Mastodon, judging by various comments on Twitter over the last few days. @Gargron please can someone that is still on Twitter thank you Elon's for this? This is probably the first thing he does by himself that is a good thing. @Gargron I am so grateful to the work that went into this system, making it consumer-friendly. |
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