I 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.
@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?
@Anastasiya 1. Fuck Putin
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.