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Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by tptacek »

rvz wrote: post #8

10 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.…

The years Mastodon operated before Musk chased millions of people off Twitter don't count. In the status quo ante of Musk's takeover, Mastodon may never have been viable, but Musk did take over Twitter.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by gyudin »

rvz wrote: post #8

10 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 Even monthly non-unique visits continue to decline. 6.9M in November, 3.9M in December, 3.4M in January. And personally every time I’ve tried to use it didn’t work properly as people would have problems with hosting and supporting it for free.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by dom96 »

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Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by jonas-w »

davnicwil wrote: post #7

Anyone 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?

https://github.com/gallizoltan/usercount

The bot is open source, it crawls the list at https://instances.social and checks on each instance how many users they have and how many toots (statuses) they have.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by nforgerit »

After about 6 months hosting my own little private Mastodon instance, I can say the following things:

(1) Whoever cares about that but the atmosphere is nice, cozy, exciting and creative. Zero toxicity and probably several magnitudes more meaningful conversations with people from all around the world. This apparently comes from the kinds of people I could find and connect with.

(2) Hosting is relatively easy. I think all kinds of organizations (e.g. sports clubs, media companies, private companies, schools, political parties, gov't agencies, etc.) should give it a shot hosting their own instances to take control of their social media identity. They don't necessarily need to open registrations for everyone and start moderating "the masses". I only let few hand-picked people on my instance that I happen to know IRL and still have a happy life.

(3) I once saw a post from a German IT mag (heise, I think from November 2022) that claimed that they have more traffic through Mastodon than through any other Social Media thingy. Surely, their audience was a good fit but I think it's a matter of critical mass when more less-nerdy people would join the Fediverse.

In summary, I deleted my Twitter account ~2 months ago and don't regret it. Some things are a bit annoying (mostly bugs, finding and connecting with other people, not much interaction with my posts [maybe it's because my posts are sh*t]) but all in all it's a great resource for inspiration and digital interaction with other people.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by benatkin »

Method-X wrote: post #6

Doesn't look like there are many active users.

Perhaps.

Anecdotally, I was 5 times as active on twitter as I am on Mastodon.

Now I am not on twitter at all.

So I'm more active on Mastodon than on twitter right now, but not super active.

If you think that's a victory for twitter, fair enough. It got so much critical mass that it's hard to replicate off of Twitter. But as weeks keep passing by without me going back to twitter, I think that's a win for Mastodon.

Re: Mastodon hit 10M users

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Post by jeromegv »

gyudin wrote: post #12
rvz wrote: post #8

10 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 Even monthly non-unique visits continue to decline. 6.9M in November, 3.9M in December, 3.4M in January. And personally every time I’ve tried to use it didn’t work properly as people would have problems with hosting and supporting it for free.

Where are you getting the non-unique visits data?
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