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.
So, that total... By the end of day, it's more like 70,849... That's quite a lot for a single day, isn't it. Federated social media is better than commercial silos, and I'm happy that more people are learning about it.
J.R. Orci@Gargron Just wait until Trump and Infowars are reinstated on Twitter. I hope Mastodon can handle the load.
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Tim Chambers@tchambers @orci @Gargron I think it’ll happen. As more move, they’ll naturally coalesce into communities and create instances, but when they’re starting out, the flagship instances are the most logical to join and get an idea of what things are like.
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pluhmen@Gargron Wow, this is huge. 💪
Anastasiya@Gargron
Hi, Just joined this place...
Two questions:
1 - What's your opinion on russian fascist imperialistic state and russian war crimes in Ukraine?
2 - How many cats do you have?
Hi, Just joined this place...
Two questions:
1 - What's your opinion on russian fascist imperialistic state and russian war crimes in Ukraine?
2 - How many cats do you have?
@Anastasiya 1. Fuck Putin
2. None currently 😢
2. None currently 😢
@Gargron
1. russian fascist regime must be defeated. It's the best for everyone, inc. russian populace.
2. Oh. I feel you. I would like to adopt a cat again in the future.
1. russian fascist regime must be defeated. It's the best for everyone, inc. russian populace.
2. Oh. I feel you. I would like to adopt a cat again in the future.
WasABoojum@Gargron @Anastasiya As a former russian, I'd use harsher words for Putin... Luckily Russian has enough of those for him.
@boojum Btw, we need Feygin and Arestovych on this platform. I am sure Mark will have valuable contributions to add to these conversations (of course, with some of his favourite anecdotes and Samara's approach.
Daniel Howard 🌻@Gargron the federated model perhaps facilitates scalability?
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Carsten Wawer@Gargron Those numbers are numbers of the whole #fediverse, not just instances you manage, right?
Sascha Pallenberg 🇹🇼 ♻️ ⚡@Gargron I truly hope we can keep up this momentum. Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into this 🙏
Hibiscus@Gargron I miss Drükos. I used to retweet English threads and translate them above. Could you reconsider allowing Drükos?
pinkman@Gargron encouraging! I would say the sign up process seems to be a turn off for some people, based on what I’ve heard from friends
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tinybug@Gargron what does federated socia media mean
Uncle 6 🌁@tayloredin @Gargron I’ll take this one: federated means there are multiple Mastodon servers but they can share posts from server to server so you can follow someone who isn’t in your particular instance. Basically what if Twitter worked like email.
@tayloredin worse: I have a career in IT ;)
@uncle6 oh my god. I wish the company I worked for could afford IT that could do their job and also explain what was going on 😅.
Martin Puppe@tayloredin @Gargron That means that you are free to pick where you want to create your Mastodon account. You picked mas.to, Eugen is at mastodon.social, I am at social.anoxinon.de. There are a lot more so-called instances that other people use. But all of them can talk to each others because the instances share a common protocol that tells them how to speak to each other. /1
@tayloredin @Gargron This is similar to email. You can pick Gmail but there are a lot of other providers to choose from. You can also install email software on your own server and use that. Or you could even write your own software and use that as long as your software follows the proper protocols for exchanging emails. /2
@tayloredin @Gargron A lot of people are worried what Elon Musk will do to Twitter and they can’t do a lot about it. They can leave, sure, but they will have to leave the people that they are following and that are following them behind.
If someone were to take mas.to in a direction that you don’t like you can just go to another instance and still talk to your friends.
Carsten Raddatz@tayloredin Mastodon is a platform that federates with others - much like email, where e.g. gmail can send to and receive from any other domain. There's no lock-in. Here's an explainer: fediverse.party/en/fediverse/
DarrenKeith@Gargron Thank You for this space. 🌞✌🏾🌞
Flowers of Capp StreetDanke, Eugen!
Becs #TeamPlanet@Gargron like it so far!
Vega@Gargron Excited to see this community grow!
@Gargron Hope it grows even more
Autor-X@Gargron , tja, da ist wohl ein Dank an Elon Musk fällig. 😂
ij@Gargron Yeah, it scales pretty well, at least on my side. Some other instances might have performance issues.
Over here it's like +1000 users or >50% more within the last 4 days, according to https://the-federation.info/node/nerdculture.de
Still room for more. CPUs are doing well, storage is ok, etc...
So, 👍 for the performance of Mastodon as a software! 🙂
@ij Thank you for providing the service! 😀
Thomas@Gargron one thing that I m still not sure is, doesn't the distributed nature of the fediverse nurture opinion silos which further fragmetises society?
@Gargron could you give insight on the current scale of your operation, would be interesting to see how many App-Server, DBs and so on are working in sync here 🤓
kurtsh@Gargron Congratulations on having the wherewithal to keep up with a once in a lifetime moment! Great job!
@Gargron once network effect takes place, it's gonna shoot up
Will Oremus@Gargron really appreciate this transparency. any chance you have updated figures on growth since thursday?
@Gargron man your work is awesome