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As opposed to other social media platforms like reddit where you can only have one, right? 😜
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Is that total accounts? Because I have like 7 accounts…
Yeah it’s total accounts, total monthly active users is more like a million
Out of curiosity, why do you have 7 accounts?
https://feddit.org/post/3143093
- Multi-community simulator
- Defederation avoidance, usually paired with accounts on special interest servers you don’t want to risk losing access to.
- Porn and non-porn.
- Privacy by dividing online activities between multiple accounts to make it difficult to profile you and to maintain some pseudonymity.
Maybe to add to this, there may be folks like me who initially joined on things that became problematic or we wanted something “better” and are now on something different, leading to doubles. Not sure if my older accounts (like kbin) would show up but they might.
I have a few of those. During the reddit exodus when the API changes went live, I had to register on a few servers to finally get a working and stable account. Issues with email or setting up captchas to prevent bots resulted in a few of my accounts not going live until a week+ later on some instances.
Ah okay, makes sense, thanks!
In my case, somewhat chronological order:
- First Mastodon account, on server that is unmaintained but still running.
- Funkwhale
- Mastodon with full name for academic use, on relevant server
- BookWyrm
- Kbin (dead now)
- New Mastodon for hobby interests, as the server of my first account is worthless at this point
- Piefed
- Mbin
- My professional website is in the early stages of federating as well. Still work in progress, but I follow myself and it somewhat works
If a nodebb forum I have an account on decides to federate I might reach double digits.
Edit: I forgot I also have a Pixelfed account! So double digits already.
It’s not too hard. There are a bunch of different platforms one might experiment with as well as instances. Some will use multiple accounts for different needs or interests. On lemmy, multi accounts are useful for have different feeds, for example. I probably have 7-10. I’ve probably forgotten about a few of them. If you’re curious, it happens.
Some on different services, some with different subscriptions, some on different servers, etc.
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.
Why 7?
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.
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.
Is that total users, or active users?
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I knew I shouldn’t have used the word “never”, although I was thinking that only “deleted” accounts would drop the total count. That’s also a good point.
But it still seems unlikely that there will be a LOT or cases where the total number drops by a proportionately large number, unless something really bad happens (or there’s some big initiative at some point to remove inactive or not accounts)
The more important stat - the one that people would be much more likely to be talking about seeing a “decline” in, in cases like this - is “active” users.
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Suck it Bluesky
what bluesky is got to do with this?
They just hit 10 million last week. I’m just making a joke, don’t take it too seriously. I use both.
I wonder how many of them will actually continue using it after a few weeks/months
Aren’t most of those due to Brazilians? 3M or so?
Happy you’re all here!
happy to be part of the fediverse
I completely forgot but apparently I joined Lemmy exactly one year ago lol
Happy cakeday?
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???
I really like it here, it feels like early Reddit after the dog exodus.
Autocorrect, my mortal enemy!
Is there a thing like that which shows ALL the services, with how many each has?
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ATM? Active … Monthly? Can’t make out what it stands for…
At The Moment
Dang. I had kind of hoped this had been increasing a bit over the months.
sadly not really
It’s mostly Mastodon. (Shoutout to @RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works for posting the link to FediDB)
Misskey? 🤔 I heard it’s something Japanese? So probably a lot of Japanese fediverse users use it? I don’t think I’ve seen somebody from misskey in my interactions with the fediverse. Are they self-contained or something?
Misskey is like Mastodon but better, yes it’s Japanese. There are a lot of Misskey forks that are probably being counted in the Other
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That’s probably just Lemmy active user you’ve heard, as the majority of user for fediverse is from mastodon. 12m is total user for the whole fediverse, active user is around 1m.
Sauce from here: https://fedidb.org/
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Is there any way to see older data?
https://fediverse.observer/stats&months=96
But shows different numbers.
That’s pretty dang cool, and 12 is my favourite number too :-)
What’s your favourite number?
