Eugen Rochko199,430 is the number of new users across different Mastodon servers since October 27, along with 437 new servers. This bring last day's total to 608,837 active users, which is without precedent the highest it's ever been for Mastodon and the fediverse.
electronic Max Van Kleek 🌈@Gargron amazing! genuine question: how are you able to get these stats given the decentralised nature of mastodon? is there some centralised reporting across the whole fediverse to you?
Carl ColglazierNot sure exactly what Eugen is using, but the user counts are easily accessible via the API and it wouldn't be too hard to run a calculation for all the instances which federate with mastodon.social, which is most of them. Won't be (totally) complete, but I'm not sure Eugen is claiming that.