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Bluesky = 13m users, Mastodon = 9m users. Bluesky hasn't released what their DAU/MAUs are but Mastodon's aren't that bad. https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24

Bluesky = 13m users, Mastodon = 9m users. Bluesky hasn't released what their DAU/MAUs are but Mastodon's aren't that bad. https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a https://mastodon-analytics.com https://mastodon-analytics.com

amatecha 2y ago
Dunno, this account[0] says Mastodon has 15.5m users, says it pulls from https://instances.social/ https://instances.social/ .. no clue how reliable/accurate their data is though. [0] https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/113270983367781353 https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/11327098336778135...
colesantiago 2y ago
Bluesky has 1.43M daily active users on average and 6M monthly actives. https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky_users_total.html https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d... Mastodon has dropped to 800K monthly actives and has no data on daily actives which I would assume that number would be even lower. Not a good look for Mastodon, considering that huge drop of 400K monthly users on that active users chart and did not recover even after Elon's changes to X, the majority of X users in Brazil chose Bluesky and ignored Mastodon.
- pfraze 2y ago
  More like 2.25mm DAU actually
AlexAplin 2y ago
Watching the firehose events they're probably clearing Mastodon for now. We'll see how that looks after it stabilizes again, the surges tend to have pretty steep dropoffs so far. https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky_users_rate.html https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d...
isodev 2y ago
Can we actually count the number of instances and users on Mastodon (the fediverse)? I have alt accounts in at least two separate "bubbles" of servers that only federate with each other and wouldn't show up in stats like this.
- notpushkin 2y ago
  This is a rather tricky question. What does count as the fediverse in the first place?
  - isodev 2y ago
    I assume nodes capable of interacting via activity pub? Good question - if a server uses activity pub but not in a way that's compatible with say mastodon (e.g. they use notes for a different purpose), then does this count or not? I think framing social networks with metrics like number of nodes or active daily users is inadequate and only designed to appeal to some VC/founder mode bros.

amatecha 2y ago

Dunno, this account[0] says Mastodon has 15.5m users, says it pulls from https://instances.social/ https://instances.social/ .. no clue how reliable/accurate their data is though. [0] https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/113270983367781353 https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/11327098336778135...

colesantiago 2y ago

Bluesky has 1.43M daily active users on average and 6M monthly actives. https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky_users_total.html https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d... Mastodon has dropped to 800K monthly actives and has no data on daily actives which I would assume that number would be even lower. Not a good look for Mastodon, considering that huge drop of 400K monthly users on that active users chart and did not recover even after Elon's changes to X, the majority of X users in Brazil chose Bluesky and ignored Mastodon.

pfraze 2y ago
More like 2.25mm DAU actually

AlexAplin 2y ago

Watching the firehose events they're probably clearing Mastodon for now. We'll see how that looks after it stabilizes again, the surges tend to have pretty steep dropoffs so far. https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky_users_rate.html https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d...

isodev 2y ago

Can we actually count the number of instances and users on Mastodon (the fediverse)? I have alt accounts in at least two separate "bubbles" of servers that only federate with each other and wouldn't show up in stats like this.

notpushkin 2y ago
This is a rather tricky question. What does count as the fediverse in the first place?
- isodev 2y ago
  I assume nodes capable of interacting via activity pub? Good question - if a server uses activity pub but not in a way that's compatible with say mastodon (e.g. they use notes for a different purpose), then does this count or not? I think framing social networks with metrics like number of nodes or active daily users is inadequate and only designed to appeal to some VC/founder mode bros.