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 Why was the reporting of “plummeting” MAUs dodgy? Since October, Mastodon’s accounts have doubled in size. The moment an account is registered, it is “active”. Yes, even if it never posts, likes, or engages whatsoever. As well, not every instance is represented on joinmastodon.org. There’s many reasons for this. Some organizations are closed to registrations, for example. 12 comments
 @atomicpoet On the other hand, even we as fediverse enthusiasts have only a vague idea how many people are here, let alone MAUs. Kinda hard for general journalists to cover this. @stooovie @atomicpoet  @atomicpoet dwindling MAUs are reported in all stats (including the-federation and Fediverse observer). The actual numbers may be debatable, but I doubt you could make the argument against the qualitative assessment. Even if the stats are missing 10K instances with an avg of 100 users each, 100% active, it just means that instead of 2.5M active accounts out 10M you have 3.5M active accounts out of 11M —not that much of a difference, and with a generous overestimate. @atomicpoet much of the recent growth has been reported by mastodon.social (see @tchambers per-instance decomposition). If people just registering count as active, and the MAUs reported by these instances is going down, it means more accounts are going inactive than new ones are being created. This is compounded by an increase in spam accounts, that get blocked more or less quickly, abd probably instance migration (does the old account still count as existing?) @atomicpoet @tchambers finally, by just anecdotally, traffic in my timeline has not been changing significantly in the last month or so, and downwards if at all. This is course means nothing, as it might just be that traffic is increasing in corners of the Fediverse I'm not even remotely indirectly connected to, but it's in sharp contrast with previous waves.  @oblomov @atomicpoet @tchambers yea, impressionistically I’ve noticed a drop in the volume of my timeline, without any reduction or change in the people I follow.  @atomicpoet by my estimation, AT LEAST four.  |
Gregory's Server
For those quoting joinmastodon.org stats regarding MAUs:
It only counts 10,000 servers.
Yet according to the-federation.info, there are 24,000 active Fediverse instances.
If we assume 70% of the Fediverse is Mastodon, there should be 16,800 Mastodon servers.
That means joinmastodon.org might not be counting 6.8K servers.
How many people do you think use those 6.8K servers?