Gregory's Serverfrom the paper i'm finishing up:
changes in number of Mastodon instances from November 2022 to May 2023, grouped by number of users
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another thing that's not obvious is that a lot of instances were created and discontinued in recent months! although the % distribution between different size groups hasn't changed that much @tomasteck is it possible to normalize this to show number of users rather than number of instances? @alive i don't have the exact chart atm but here's a percentage-based distribution of users across the same user groups. turns out largest 1% of all instances (10k+ users) concentrate ~75% of all registered users! dangers of these trends have already been identified in "Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case" (Raman et al. 2019)  @tomasteck I’m not sure what you’re trying to show with this, but applying the actual number of users single-user instance are simply dwarfed by that one big instance.
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one of the interesting insights is that the instance count increased the fastest (+90% over 6 months), followed by total user count (+53%) and posts (+26%), suggesting that the horizontal growth really is the key indicator for Mastodon