Mastodon was in fact created by a German developer (named Eugen Rochko), though on the fediverse he goes by Gargron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(sof

Mastodon was in fact created by a German developer (named Eugen Rochko), though on the fediverse he goes by Gargron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) As to whether Mastodon has been successful in Germany (or any other specific country), there could be online sites that track rough estimates regionally. I do recall Japan really embracing things...but not sure if they embraced any stack on the fediverse, or if it was mastodon specifically. But, yeah, Japan is an example of at least one country that dove deep in early on. The main "signup" website has such a tracker of servers (the term "instances" is more often used), but these stats should only be thought of as rough estimates...because, you know, federation: https://joinmastodon.org/servers https://joinmastodon.org/servers