@micahflee Interesting -- but a lot of those folks are people dipping their toes into every Twitter alternative as Twitter itself slides into Elon-induced decay. The acid test will be how many are still around *next* month.

@micahflee as much as I love to see it, we need to center our y-axes at 0 please!

@micahflee I believe the real-time snapshot at https://instances.social/list/old can be used to gauge engagement. My understanding is "Statuses" is # of posts and "Connections" is # of database connections - that are mainly user triggered (posting, editing, browsing, searching...).

@micahflee image description: a line graph starting from September 30th and ending up with the user base skyrocketing

@micahflee And we'll probably hit 8 million total users by the end of the week, for the curious.

@micahflee Pretty incredible growth, that's for sure. Do you have a chart that details registrations over the same period?

@micahflee Wow! That is awesome!

@micahflee https://fediverse.observer/ is also a great site with lots of stats, and they go back for years. Also remember that there are around a dozen different server implementations, it's not all mastodon! Fediverse users would be a better title.

@micahflee Just out of curiosity how is this measured? Just a few of the big instances or is there a way of gathering this across the federation?

@micahflee what is most interesting is how the Patron of Mastodon has grown since as well.

@micahflee I’m not at all surprised. I checked on the bird site again today and finally deleted my account. It’s a total shit show there. So glad to be here!

@micahflee multiply this by a few hundreds and then I will consider using Mastodon only

@micahflee I'm one of the newbies, still trying to figure it out but have found a few accounts I followed on Twitter, so that familiarity helps.

@micahflee it's almost on its way to 10million active users which will be HUGE.