Happy you’re all here!

I completely forgot but apparently I joined Lemmy exactly one year ago lol

happy to be part of the fediverse

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???

Note, different websites have different total user counts. fedidb kinda goes up and down and I dont understand why.

But for example fedidb states 7,494,053 total Mastodon users whereas https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount states 15,467,187 accounts Pretty big difference. So there is probably much more accounts than what fedidb has. Or other counts are off by a large factor. Either way, lots of new faces in the fediverse! If anyone knows why theres such as discrepancy, let us know!

That’s pretty dang cool, and 12 is my favourite number too :-)

What’s your favourite number?

Suck it Bluesky

And Switzerland just closed their instance in part due to what they claim is a declining user base.

I’ve only seen Mastodon slowly creeping up, not decline.

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.