Mastodon hit 10M users
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Mastodon hit 10M users
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Re: Mastodon hit 10M users
#2what are the other competitors close to these numbers? I think:
Re: Mastodon hit 10M users
#3what are the other competitors close to these numbers? I think: https://www.deso.com/ https://nostr.com/ https://urbit.org/
no way urbit has anything close to 10M users, surely.
Re: Mastodon hit 10M users
#4what are the other competitors close to these numbers? I think: https://www.deso.com/ https://nostr.com/ https://urbit.org/
Nostr is not there in numbers (just hundreds of thousands), but growing super fast, and the clients can't be compared to what they were just a month ago in stability.
BTW Nostrica (the first ever Nostr conference) is going on right now:
Re: Mastodon hit 10M users
#5TBH I thought it would have been a lot more than that.
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#6Doesn't look like there are many active users.
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#7Anyone know how a decentralised system like mastadon can meaningfully assess user count? In terms of accounts corresponding to real, distinct people?
And has such an analysis been done to produce the numbers this account is reporting?
Re: Mastodon hit 10M users
#810 million 'registered users' not 'daily active users' in 7 years. Even in some of the comments in the post are skeptical about the usage of those registered accounts.
In comparison to Twitter (Since Mastodon zealots often pitch it as a 'Twitter alternative' somehow) 7 years after it launched, it had well over 250M+ total users with well over 150M daily actives. [0] Even Nostr has 6M total users in less than 7 years. [1] Either way, total registered number of users tells us nothing about the usage of the network.
Yet we have daily actives much less than 1.5M with a large drop in users this year since they don't stick around on Mastodon. [2] It only tells us that there are very loud crickets screaming about migrating to Mastodon which accounted for less than 1% of Twitter's total number of users. (And most of them never stuck around)
7 years is not early days with this. Matrix launched in 2014 and reached 10M in less than 5 years and multiplied by up to 8x to 80M in less than 4 years [3] and it is highly competitive against Signal. There is no excuses for such sluggish user numbers for Mastodon with even less monthly active users.
Thus, I think we have given Mastodon enough time and it is clear that it hasn't taken off. Perhaps it is time to stop pretending about users caring about signing up to a over-engineered discord forum promoting pseudo-federation.
[0] https://backlinko.com/twitter-users
[1] https://stats.nostr.band/#total_users
[2] https://www.wired.com/story/the-mastodon-bump-is-now-a-slump...
Re: Mastodon hit 10M users
#9Anyone know how a decentralised system like mastadon can meaningfully assess user count? In terms of accounts corresponding to real, distinct people? And has such an analysis been done to produce the numbers this account is reporting?
>Anyone know how a decentralised system like mastadon can meaningfully assess user count? In terms of accounts corresponding to real, distinct people?
Can Twitter even manage that, given the well known issues with bots?
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#10It's interesting that there are normally 10.000-40.000 [0] toots per hour and it skyrockets up to 8.000.000 toots per hour in this graph, how is this possible?
[0] based on a graph before these huge spikes https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/11003025216596297...