Eugen RochkoOct 28, 2022
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.
Show threadEugen RochkoOct 29, 2022
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.
Show threadEugen RochkoOct 30, 2022
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.
Show threadDaniel Howard 🌻Oct 30, 2022
@Gargron the federated model perhaps facilitates scalability?
Show threadCеmrе Kаrаkаs
@dannyman @Gargron to some extent, yes. But the load is far from being evenly distributed between instances, sometimes due to new users not really getting the hang of how all this works
Oct 30, 2022 at 12:55amWeb