@Gargron 🥳👍🏾

@Gargron I understand that more than half the people who went from Twitter to Threads have gone back. At some point they will try and dump it again and something with fewer influencers and not owned by a billionaire may seem worth a look.

@Gargron it still amazes me how such a polished social media platform hasn't yet got bigger, and the Meta's Treads is still a viable option, in Europe mostly (where for the last couple years the Union is trying to get big hungry for data platforms to comply with regulation).

@Gargron Sorry to be off topic, but why are there no Hindus in Mastodon? Not that I miss them, but it's an strange deviation.

@Gargron I noticed that people in mastodon like to share cat's pictures 🐈. Maybe we need to attract more dogs fans!

@Gargron can you point me to your data source / API for tracking active users? I'd like to be able to share this with my research community. Thanks!

@Gargron probably not a lot of Nazi or disinformation accounts among them too!

@Gargron just ask again: can we login by user name or account name besides email? it would be more easy, flexible and secured, more privacy, thx

@Gargron all the shareholders are happy.

@Gargron Great news! How is the monthly active count calculated?

@Gargron That's great, but I feel like Mastodon can still do more to promote itself as a viable Twitter alternative.

Maybe you guys can show how to use it in a cohesive and easy to understand way, that might get more users to join as I've seen that's one of the reasons that scare them away from using the site; It seems too complicated to the regular person.

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@Gargron I love this site..

@Gargron While I totally understand you watching the metrics, Mastodon has always proven not to rely on those numbers when it comes to quality interactions. I find public discussion on here so much more valuable.

@Gargron at least should be organic. Not like twitter bundled with bots

@Gargron 2.1M must be divided by 10 to get closer to real data. I can't understand how you can include as active user someone that did one time login a month ago. My 2cc 🤟

@Gargron I like it better than Threads.

@Gargron is this MAU for mastodon.social alone or all instances federated with mastodon.social?

@Gargron some bloggers on YouTube are talking about it. That's how I got here)

@Gargron Great!

@Gargron
I had number totals on my boost and like buttons this morning. Any body know what happen to them?

@Gargron Mastodon and the Fedi have felt so freaking alive lately!

This summer is some of the most fun I’ve ever had here because there are so many voices, posts, discussions, replies, etc. it feels way more vibrant here than any other social network I’m on. Seriously!

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I hope it keeps growing but 2.1M is tiny compared to other social media sites. I suppose they started out small too.

I think part of the problem for some people who are interested in joining is trouble picking an instance from the thousands that are available. There is a list of instances but probably most people don't know about it.

@Gargron Way to go!

@Gargron Love it!

@Gargron Onwards and upwards!

@Gargron in the YouTube / disgruntled ex-twitter circles, I see a lot of misunderstandings around the concept of servers. I have heard a lot of high profile people say that servers are isolated from each other, causing them (and their followers) to not give Mastodon a shot. Maybe we suck at advertising 🙂

@Gargron I mean, I'm here, and I'm some schlub from the west coast. People are showing up!

@Gargron We need to get some news agencies of all kinds over here!

@Gargron 👍🏾✨

@Gargron I stopped using it for a bit, and then Threads came out, and I was SO tempted to join because everyone was on there, and then I heard that Threads has announced they will eventually implement ActivityPub so I can follow all the people on there without needing to actually BE on there so I've doubled down and I'm back on here.

@Gargron Define "active user" (-;

@Gargron I joined, went back to Twitter and am back again. I still have an account on Twitter but trying to break the habit. It would help if I could find more reliable journalists and funny folks here. It’s harder here but increasingly worth the additional effort.

@Gargron this is hard to understand tho 😩

@Gargron Twitter isn't going to be Twitter anymore. It's X Corp. They are even changing the logo. This really is the dystopian future.

@Gargron I lost all contacts to mastodon.social after the server upgrade on det.social /o\ There is no way to find out, why this happened and how to prevent it, isnt it? (Or to restore it?)

@Gargron

Is that 2.1 across all instances or your specific instance?

@Gargron this place is pretty great.

nice job 🤩