mtdomainNov 19, 2022
Chris Trottier

UPDATE: Mastodon accounts: 7,133,516 (estimate)

* 5,451 in the last hour
* 238,181 in the last day
* 548,368 in the last week

After a crazy jump all day today, it looks like sign-up are finally calming down to ~5,000/hour. Which is still a stunning amount of new users.

We (the Fediverse) need lots of funding to onboard these new users so donate to the admins of your instance as well as the Mastodon project. https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

NOTE: Will be actively blocking all concern trolls who reply.

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Nov 19, 2022 at 2:38amWeb
Show threadNia MolinariNov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet Holy shitballs. 👀
Show threadZorro Notorious MEB 😡Nov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet It'll pick up again over the weekend. $2 a month sounds like a bargain to me!
Show threadIcedNov 19, 2022
@AlgoCompSynth @atomicpoet especially when the checkmark was $8 and it was going to a corporation, that is a steal that’s is worth it
Show threadMartin Moore Nov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet damn!
Show threadSean FoxNov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet well done! You guys are absolutely crushing it!
Show threadChris TrottierNov 19, 2022
@shojo When I say "we" I mean the royal "we" -- all of us.
Show threadSean FoxNov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet you guys as in all of y’all, collectively are crushing it…royally! 
Show threadOblomovNov 19, 2022

@atomicpoet wait, isn't the royal we the one that means I, and the author's we (pluralis modestiae) the one that means everybody?

@shojo

Show threadChris TrottierNov 19, 2022
@oblomov @shojo I don't know right now. My brain is broke. I mean collective we.
Show threadSean FoxNov 19, 2022
@oblomov @atomicpoet I think that is correct 
Show threadthatcynicalbastardNov 19, 2022

@atomicpoet

@JudyHelfrich

Is there a hashtag we can use to spread the word to donate?

Show threadsharobs14Nov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet how do you find out who your moderators are
Show threadHans at SacredBodies.caNov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet Done ✔️
Show threadquayNov 19, 2022

@atomicpoet I’m not entirely sure what concern-trolling is, but lil’ servers and their tireless admins need love, too. 😀

#TossACoinToYourServerAdmin

Show threadChris TrottierNov 19, 2022

@quay Concern trolling is when people throw mud at an initiative under the guise of concern.

Example: "The Fediverse would be an amazing thing to build but corporations will just hijack it in the end."

Show threadSparkle TeaNov 19, 2022
@quay @atomicpoet
What a great term.
Sort of like the creation end of doom scrolling.
Show threadkarmacNov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet @quay thanks! I never knew what that kind of comment was, just that it annoyed me to no end!
Show threadDavid LNov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet @quay dang, didn't know there was a term for that.
Show threadIgnis 小火龙Nov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet Am grateful for the open registration servers for taking the load, honestly.
Show threadIgnis 小火龙Nov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet I can't donate yet though -- not in good financial situation for now. But I'm grateful to anyone who donates. Will boost.
Show threadRuna HellingaNov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet Thanks. I was just looking for payment information.
Show threadGhost PantsNov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet I’m very new to all of this. What is a “concern troll?”
Show threadChris TrottierNov 19, 2022
@ghostpants I've explained it elsewhere in this thread.
Show threadGhost PantsNov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet ah, I see. Thx!
Show threadAlexander Olofsson | AnanaceNov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet Hopefully the fediverse will continue to grow (albeit at a more manageable rate), even without major sources of centralization collapsing like with how Twitter's going.
Mastodon, Matrix, PeerTube, Funkwhale, etc, so many ways to take back your internet today.
Show threaddenyjagminNov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet well done.
Show threadJoyNov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet Chris, what amounts are hoped for? Any guidelines you can please offer to we the new members?
Show threadsimone basso (smnbss)Nov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet donated.
But noticed you guys run out of gold tier… you might want to add some more availability and find some more generous donors
Show threadJohn Spounias  Nov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet you need more service providers to show up, opalstack.social is ready!
Show threadthatcynicalbastardNov 19, 2022

@atomicpoet

Just made an annual donation. Thanks for all the work you guys do to make this a fantastic place!

Show threadanarcatNov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet you must be getting that a lot, but i haven't figured it out: how do you generate those graphs? i know of the-federation.info that has some of that data, but the graphs don't look as pretty...
Show threadChris TrottierNov 19, 2022
@Anarcat I'm getting it from another place that I *would* link to, but it happens to be at an instance that's unsavoury.
Show threadPaul ChiusanoNov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet can you share your methodology for estimating the 7 million?
https://mastodon.help/instances/en suggests just over 5 million
Mastodon Help - Instances

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Show threadChris TrottierNov 19, 2022
@pchiusano Nope, this is not methodology. It's data from a site I'm not linking to because I disagree with them on ideological grounds but nevertheless like their charts.
Show threadJono FergusonNov 19, 2022

@atomicpoet @pchiusano would you be willing to share ghe grounds.

I'm pretty sure I know what they are and will agree with you based on their instance domain name.

Show threadChris TrottierNov 19, 2022
@jonoabroad @pchiusano Sure, I'm not a fan of badly moderated instances with a focus on cryptocurrency.
Show threadJono FergusonNov 19, 2022

@atomicpoet @pchiusano thank you, I am the least aware person in existence and unless it's in huge neon signage I don't notice obvious things.

I have missed some shockers.

Show threadPaul ChiusanoNov 19, 2022
@atomicpoet I think it’s kind of shady that you won’t share the source of the info you’re blasting out. Without a source, we can’t really say whether the way it was computed was legit. And it clearly wasn’t from a trustworthy source. I’m pretty skeptical of that 7 million number now.
Show threadChris TrottierNov 20, 2022
@pchiusano What's my grift?
Show threadChris BrownNov 20, 2022
https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount
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39.7K Posts, 0 Following, 1.19K Followers · User Count Bot for all known Mastodon instances

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Show threadChris BrownNov 20, 2022
Source code is in the bio of the user.
Show threadPaul ChiusanoNov 20, 2022
@73rdnemesio @atomicpoet I wonder what the 2 million discrepancy is…
Show threadChris BrownNov 20, 2022
So it looks like the bot pulls from the Instance list from https://instances.social/instances.json then gets the user count from the API of each of those instances. I’m assuming if an instance doesn’t respond it doesn’t delete the user count from the previous pull.
Show threadJono FergusonNov 19, 2022

@pchiusano @atomicpoet it's from a bot

Let me find it for you

Show threadJoe Soap the nthNov 22, 2022
@atomicpoet @nathan Honestly i don't think there are many safe servers left after the popular ones shut there registrations.