• helenslunch@feddit.nl
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        9 months ago

        Some on different services, some with different subscriptions, some on different servers, etc.

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      9 months ago

      I wish I didn’t have to, but federation for technical or political doesn’t work so well so I need an account for Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon, and other less popular apps like Akkoma. Though 90% of my activity is on Lemmy.

    • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 months ago

      Honestly me too. It took a while to find an instance I liked plus I like having an account on another instance in case this one goes down or gets defederated.

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    And Switzerland just closed their instance in part due to what they claim is a declining user base.

    I’ve only seen Mastodon slowly creeping up, not decline.

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      9 months ago

      Is that total users, or active users?

      Total users will never rarely decline.

  • mesamunefire@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 months ago

    Note, different websites have different total user counts. fedidb kinda goes up and down and I dont understand why.

    But for example fedidb states 7,494,053 total Mastodon users whereas https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount states 15,467,187 accounts Pretty big difference. So there is probably much more accounts than what fedidb has. Or other counts are off by a large factor. Either way, lots of new faces in the fediverse! If anyone knows why theres such as discrepancy, let us know!

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I was told just last month that the fediverse had 60,000ish people. How the fuck did it go from 60k to 12Mil in 1 month???

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    9 months ago

    That’s pretty dang cool, and 12 is my favourite number too :-)

    What’s your favourite number?

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    9 months ago

    Total user count is a vanity metric. Monthly active users is more relevant and on that we are still way off from the ATH of 2.1 million from 2023.

    Also, with the nature of the Fediverse where one single person can have multiple accounts, even this metric might be bogus.