Bad headline - there's still way more activity on the Fediverse than there was before it's most recent wave. This paragraph sums it up well: >“The biggest les

Bad headline - there's still way more activity on the Fediverse than there was before it's most recent wave. This paragraph sums it up well: >“The biggest lesson of what happened is that Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse can scale. This was a big question,” says Robert Gehl, a professor of communication and media studies at York University in Canada. He has studied Mastodon and says it’s enjoyed peaks of interest followed by slumps before. But that pattern can still add momentum. “Each time, a percentage of the wave sticks,” Gehl says. “You get people converting to it.” and that's backed up by the two instance admins quoted too, from mastodon.world and mas.to. More active users than before the bump, even if that's down on the peak.