Update on the growth of #mastodon in the last months. After the big wave of new accounts on Nov 17th, the growth seems steady for the last week at around 50k new accounts/users per day. Only in the last couple of weeks, 1M new accounts were added. At this rhythm, #mastodon will get 1.5M accounts/users per month.
@estebanmoro I realize this may be very tough due to decentralization, but is there any kind of rough daily/weekly use estimate to know how many are using the accounts as opposed to preparing in case of future need?
@foobarsoft the instances report number of connections or toots, which could be used to get a sense of how many people connect every day
@estebanmoro @foobarsoft I would love to get the number of daily/weekly actives. IMO monthly actives won't tell the full story for a while, the data people need to know now is the extent to which new adoptors stay active on the site. Waiting a month seems like too long to take any sort of useful action.
@objectinspace @estebanmoro I agree. With big changes in sign-ups week to week monthly data would likely blur interesting info.