“Bluesky just passed 10 million users, how many does #Mastodon have these days?”
It’s complicated! Work-in-progress earlier this year with @MattNicholson and @cfiesler:
“Truthiness and Activity Counts: Enumerating Behavior in Decentralized Social Media"
Meanwhile, this endpoint suggests a bump of 250,000 users on August 31?!
What kind of evidence do you trust for user counts?
#twittermigration #brazil #TheorizingTheFediverse
https://libera.site/item/780a3638-f0f7-425e-843b-f2e966106616
Is there a sustained and discernible #Brazil bump in Mastodon’s new user activity? https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/113058172496452743
I am seeing more evidence and excitement on Bluesky than Mastodon about Brazilian users migrating from Twitter.
What are you seeing?
I am excited to share the preliminary results of survey research with @cfiesler, @MattNicholson, and @blakeley exploring the factors driving the #TwitterMigration since November 2022. (1/N) #TheorizingTheFediverse
https://medium.com/cuinfoscience/an-exploration-of-the-twitter-to-mastodon-migration-21c15c4336f2
There are dissertations waiting to be written about the coupling between software patch releases and socio-technical behavior.
(Arcadia already did one!1️⃣2️⃣)
Super-fascinating to watch these tech support threads circulate across the Fediverse after Mastodon deploys new versions. 😍
1️⃣ https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1841374
2️⃣ https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02736
Please screen cap this to dunk on me later if I get this #HotTake profoundly wrong.
The #RedditMigration is going to cause a bigger disruption to the fediverse than either the #TwitterMigration or #MetaMigration.
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.