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In the past two weeks, the Mastodon-compatible parts of the Fediverse have gone from 600K active users to 7M active users. George Takei and Elvira are on Mastod
by NoGravitas 4y ago
In the past two weeks, the Mastodon-compatible parts of the Fediverse have gone from 600K active users to 7M active users. George Takei and Elvira are on Mastodon. We'll see how things develop, but this doesn't feel niche anymore.
- nelsonenzo 4y agoHow did the compute power increase 15x ? Last I tried to join a server, they were full.
- bfgoodrich 4y ago
- NoGravitas 4y agoThe number of active servers increased by 300 in the same timespan, so the influx was spread out a bit. The strain on the bigger servers has been a little rough, but it should level out.
- Kye 4y agoYour numbers are a bit off. It's 7m total up from ~5.6m before all this, not active. The active count historically drops back down to ~100k after booms, but this one does seem different and sustained due to the different circumstances. It's usually a small burp in a specific community. It's never been all of Twitter's most active users from across all communities considering alternatives.
- owlbynight 4y agoIt's one thing to get users. It's another to keep them. Mastodon's user experience is godawful. It might be an IRC replacement for nerds, but it'll never be Twitter.
- kibwen 4y agoI've found Mastodon's UI to be so vastly superior to Twitter that it isn't even funny. Volunteers are running circles around Twitter's UI team.