So... There seems to be a common misconception where people assume all of Mastodon has 180,000 users because mastodon.social says it's home to that number of users.

The real number is closer to 1,5 million. Those 180k are only mastodon.social users and there are like... 3,000 other servers?

I wonder what I should do. 🤔

@Gargron

I'd list the most realistic number of know users in known instances, perhaps with a link explaining how federation works?

@RussSharek @Gargron just say clearly "only on this instance"

@saper

Or...

X number if users on this instance alone...and millions more in the fediverse!

@Gargron