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.
tinybug@Gargron what does federated socia media mean
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