Total user count is a vanity metric. Monthly active users is more relevant and on that we are still way off from the ATH of 2.1 million from 2023.
Also, with the nature of the Fediverse where one single person can have multiple accounts, even this metric might be bogus.
As opposed to other social media platforms like reddit where you can only have one, right? 😜
I didn’t say that reddit’s metrics were any better so your gotcha makes no sense.
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Yeah it’s total accounts, total monthly active users is more like a million
Out of curiosity, why do you have 7 accounts?
https://feddit.org/post/3143093
- Multi-community simulator
- Defederation avoidance, usually paired with accounts on special interest servers you don’t want to risk losing access to.
- Porn and non-porn.
- Privacy by dividing online activities between multiple accounts to make it difficult to profile you and to maintain some pseudonymity.
Maybe to add to this, there may be folks like me who initially joined on things that became problematic or we wanted something “better” and are now on something different, leading to doubles. Not sure if my older accounts (like kbin) would show up but they might.
In my case, somewhat chronological order:
- First Mastodon account, on server that is unmaintained but still running.
- Funkwhale
- Mastodon with full name for academic use, on relevant server
- BookWyrm
- Kbin (dead now)
- New Mastodon for hobby interests, as the server of my first account is worthless at this point
- Piefed
- Mbin
- My professional website is in the early stages of federating as well. Still work in progress, but I follow myself and it somewhat works
If a nodebb forum I have an account on decides to federate I might reach double digits.
Edit: I forgot I also have a Pixelfed account! So double digits already.
Suck it Bluesky
what bluesky is got to do with this?
They just hit 10 million last week. I’m just making a joke, don’t take it too seriously. I use both.
I was told just last month that the fediverse had 60,000ish people. How the fuck did it go from 60k to 12Mil in 1 month???
