Eugen RochkoI got asked this by a few different journalists today, so I'm just going to share the numbers. 10,801 people signed up on different Mastodon servers today, and 22,139 since last week.
Update: 49,215 new users across different Mastodon servers since yesterday. Probably a lot of them are actually from yesterday. My crawler only runs once a day so I get a bit of a delayed view of things.
Vael 🏳️⚧️@Gargron So many!
Dušan Mitrović@vaelfonia @Gargron A drop in the bucket actually. A lot for Mastodon, but lets not get ahead of ourselves here.
Marcellus@dusnm @vaelfonia @Gargron to be entirely certain how small of a drop this is.
Twitter had 206 million users before Elon's takeover
Reddit has 450 million
TikTok around 1 billion, roughly 700 million are real
Instagram 1.5 billion
Facebook 3.5 billion users
And this is not registered but active users.
Geotechland@marcellus96 @dusnm @vaelfonia @Gargron
Well, if we are comparing it to twitter, its actually decent for 1 day.
It's more a testament to how small twitter is compared to the rest.
The average person doesn't really use twitter or mastodon.