Is that total accounts? Because I have like 7 accounts…
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.
I have a few of those. During the reddit exodus when the API changes went live, I had to register on a few servers to finally get a working and stable account. Issues with email or setting up captchas to prevent bots resulted in a few of my accounts not going live until a week+ later on some instances.
Ah okay, makes sense, thanks!
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.
It’s not too hard. There are a bunch of different platforms one might experiment with as well as instances. Some will use multiple accounts for different needs or interests. On lemmy, multi accounts are useful for have different feeds, for example. I probably have 7-10. I’ve probably forgotten about a few of them. If you’re curious, it happens.
Why 7?
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!
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???
I really like it here, it feels like early Reddit after the dog exodus.
Autocorrect, my mortal enemy!
Lemmy is almost at 400k users alone. (391,247 ATM of writing). Its probably higher as there are servers that dont federate.
Is there a thing like that which shows ALL the services, with how many each has?
Dang. I had kind of hoped this had been increasing a bit over the months.
sadly not really
It’s mostly Mastodon. (Shoutout to @RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works for posting the link to FediDB)
It surprises me a little, because on some instances there seems to be a lot of power users/tech influencer types, but not a lot of engagement between smaller accounts. Active users is around 1 in 12, which is again higher than expected, so maybe it’s just me/Hackyderm?
That’s probably just Lemmy active user you’ve heard, as the majority of user for fediverse is from mastodon. 12m is total user for the whole fediverse, active user is around 1m.
Sauce from here: https://fedidb.org/
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.
Is that total users, or active users?
Total users will never decline.
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.
Is there any way to see older data?
That’s pretty dang cool, and 12 is my favourite number too :-)
What’s your favourite number?
