@jerry After seeing the first news articles that the #Fediverse/#Mastodon dwindles, shrinks and doesn't catch on, I thought that the journalists didn't do enough research or that they were misinterpreting the data (huge spike in November and then it went down a while). However, now I think that there is some economic interest involved or that they are paid. In fact, within 12 months, the Fediverse number of users almost tripled and the active users almost quadrupled.