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Mark Prior

@atomicpoet @donmelton

I find these numbers hard to believe. By my count the (possibly) top 62 mastodon instances have just under 5 million users (of those nearly 900,000 are active). Where are the other 5 million hiding? They aren't in the other 11,000 instances I check.

17 Mar 2023 at 6:30 | Wall-to-wall | Open on ohai.social
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Chris Trottier

@markrprior @donmelton I don’t know what you’re counting, or where you’re counting. No one has any authoritative stats on Mastodon, nor the Fediverse for that matter.

17 Mar 2023 at 6:36 | Open on mastodon.social
Mark Prior

@atomicpoet @donmelton
I'm doing a daily walk of close to 18,000 fediverse instances looking at the user counts they each report which is why I find 10 million user number unbelievable. I have no idea how the mastodon count software is doing it (or even how it updates so quickly) but it seems bogus.

17 Mar 2023 at 6:43 | Open on ohai.social
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