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 what does federated socia media mean

@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.

@uncle6 @Gargron are you a teacher cause you should be because this explanation makes the most sense of all I’ve read. Thanks!