 Gizmodo just recommended "6 Musk-Free Twitter Alternatives". Of course, Mastodon made the list. They also mentioned that Mastodon is the social network that's gained the most traction. Which is true. Mastodon is about to hit 11 million accounts this week. The Fediverse itself is bigger. In fact Mastodon isn't even the fastest growing Fediverse service. That honour goes to Misskey, which has doubled in size over the past month. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2023/04/best-twitter-alternatives/ 12 comments
 @ff0000 Misskey got some media coverage in Japan, which resulted in the current wave of new accounts. @atomicpoet Interesting, that makes the internationalization part of the Fediverse also easier in the sense that certain software can tailor to particular markets while still being connected to the larger Fediverse, while otherwise a huge platform has to try to do that.  @atomicpoet It's always difficult to do "fastest growing" things though. If I have a company with one person in it and employ someone else, I've grown 100%, for example. It's skewed for smaller numbers if you use a percentace, and for much larger numbers if you use absolutes. I wish people would stop using it at all really. Isn't it enough to say, "X is cool"?  @atomicpoet "fastest growing" always reminds me of the xkcd classic: https://xkcd.com/1102/ @atomicpoet @fediversenews Will Misskey and Mastodon users be able to follow each other at some point? I'm interested in new platforms but have no desire to move again. That's assuming we can't already - I created a new Bookwyrm account because I didn't realise Mastodon could link to it. @atomicpoet quite honestly, i am hoping that other projects continue to florish so that Mastodon isn't seen as the only option. They don't really eat into each other. @atomicpoet @fediversenews I just looked up Misskey. Is the anime catgirl in a school girl outfit mascot necessary? It's kind of creepy. @atomicpoet @fediversenews “..it can’t be controlled by a single entity…”. Who foresaw the massive significance of this?  @atomicpoet @fediversenews i hate how theyre linking directly to mastodon.social instead of joinmastodon.org also countersocial 💀  @fediversenews @atomicpoet Now if only the search feature would light up 😒 |
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The continued growth of Misskey isn't mentioned enough.
But look at this graph.
Fediverse.observer says there are 233,996 Misskey accounts.
This is actually a conservative estimate since the-federation.info lists 1,231,334 accounts.
The biggest Misskey server is misskey.io which has 157,839 accounts.
Many of you may not know about Misskey. It's big in Japan.
But you may have heard of Calckey, a fork of Misskey, which is getting more popular here in the West.
https://misskey.fediverse.observer/stats
The continued growth of Misskey isn't mentioned enough.
But look at this graph.
Fediverse.observer says there are 233,996 Misskey accounts.
This is actually a conservative estimate since the-federation.info lists 1,231,334 accounts.
The biggest Misskey server is misskey.io which has 157,839 accounts.