Chris TrottierNov 19, 2022

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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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
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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 Ferguson

@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.

Nov 19, 2022 at 11:33pmWeb
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.