Seems healthy to me. It's around 1/3 the size of Bsky (which is, itself, a small fraction of twitter's user count), but it is still maintaining just shy of a mi

Seems healthy to me. It's around 1/3 the size of Bsky (which is, itself, a small fraction of twitter's user count), but it is still maintaining just shy of a million DAUs, which is not that far off from Bsky's 1.2-1.5 million DAUs. Bsky has a better UX so it attracts a wider diversity of users, which can make it seems more prominent than masto, but the value of federation is interoperability. Mastodon can keep all of its users and still share its content on bsky and vice versa. It's not a zero sum for one of them to win or lose.