Dave Rahardja
Chris Trottier🎊🎉 It happened! 🎉🎊
8,001,321 accounts on Mastodon!
We went over 8 million within the last hour!
Break out the champagne 🍾🥂
This is a big milestone!🏅
And believe me, millions more will join soon!
Lloyd Wagner@atomicpoet Twitter is toast
Steve WhiteLove every single digit. :D
People will start to figure it out and commercial social media could die.
AZcoigreach@atomicpoet Can't wait!! Glad I setup a new server.
Bruce Mirken@atomicpoet I just hope all us Twitter refugees don't f*** up the place.
Hobbes@BruceMirken @atomicpoet I’ve found myself sticking to reblogging as I try to get a sense for the overall feel.
Atz@BruceMirken @atomicpoet of course they will. Like 80% of the problems with Twitter are the users (people), not the platform. Mastodon may not promote toxic posts but people are the same. The more people using mastodon the more likely you are to have a rando calling you weird slurs for your picture of your cat. Or calling any woman who does "literally anything" a slut.
I'm unconvinced mastodon will solve those problems as the users increase.
Joel De Rose@BruceMirken @atomicpoet I don't see any accounts here yet that have slammed me. This is a good sign.
Götz Kluge@BruceMirken @atomicpoet -- Sooner or later there will be trolls with an agenda. I hope that decentralization will make it easier to deal with them.
Madhur Chadha ✅(Product &Tech)@atomicpoet wohoo congratulations
Gen X-Wing@atomicpoet I kinda wish all the big 50k+ instances closed sign ups for a while, or at least direct away from them. To spread things out more.
Also hope for less generic instances. I like themed ones.
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@breadbin @atomicpoet But which theme to join, if one has several interests (as most people, surely, do)?
Keiþ 🔭@breadbin @atomicpoet I went for a general instance with a large population because it wasn’t run by one person, and whilst I love astronomy, comedy, politics and many other things I’m not a single topic poster. Also I checked to make sure the instance had a way for me to pay them some money. On the whole though the more instances the better. Then again, we’re free to move around.
@IChewPorridge @breadbin Last I checked, mastodon.online is run by one person 😂
@atomicpoet @breadbin Yeah. Didn’t say I got it right, now did I? 🤣
@IChewPorridge @breadbin FYI, my instance is run by the same guy.
There's a reason that I also self-host a back-up instance.
@atomicpoet @breadbin My social media on here isn’t important enough for me to go that far though technically I would find the exercise fascinating. I thought I would be concerned about shutting my Twitter account down, but in the end it didn’t matter. I had fun on there at the beginning. Good memories, but that’s all.
@atomicpoet @IChewPorridge And that’s the most fragile part of the fediverse (in my mind with what I know). Instances can grow to the point where it’s too much work and too expensive (hardware) for the person who sat it up. I feel it’s better to have 500 50k instances than 50 500k ones.
@breadbin @atomicpoet Almost certainly. I suspect we may have a fall off of the number of instances. Some of the people who set up instances knew what they were getting into, some less so. I prefer to see an instance with a means of getting money, because it does really need someone paid to do the job and the facilities paid for.
@IChewPorridge @breadbin What if I told you that running an instance is cheap? And that if you own a Raspberry Pi, you can even run an instance, for almost nothing, inside your home?
@atomicpoet @IChewPorridge Well RPis are getting expensive :)
Jokes aside, that is such a cool thing. Not that I can run 50k users.
I’ve been hoping that someone would build an image to throw on SD cards or USB sticks that boots directly into a mastodon (or other fediverse app) server. Would be great for testing it out as well as situations when building an ad hoc fediverse would be useful. Let’s say a con or fighting a regime.
@atomicpoet @breadbin That is actually really cool. I love raspberry Pi. I’ve had a 2B and a 3B. Sits there running homebridge, monitoring my network and stashing camera backups.
I don’t have an understanding of the traffic between nodes, but I assume if a local user subscribes to popular hashtags the data volumes could become interesting.
BoudCurrently we have a ~ -0.5 power law distribution [1][2] - the number N of Mastodon instances of size (user count) s is
N \propto s^{-0.54} .
We're top heavy in big instances: most of us are in 10k-1M size instances, despite a weak preference for smaller instances [1][2].
Even populations in the different instance sizes would be s^{-1}.
We could celebrate if we get to 1/s. :)
[1] https://framapiaf.org/@boud/109446420944888648
[2] https://codeberg.org/boud/fedistats_naive (commit 74bbb9e)
Boud (@[email protected])
Attaché : 3 images @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] The #MastodonPowerLaw slope ~ -0.5 in the size distribution affects the political choices of federating #Fediverse communities [1]: * the median of size s of an instance is 3 (mean ~450) * the median of population size N*s is about 60,000 * one instance = one !vote (cf AU Senate) => tiny instances (~3 users/inst) dominate * one person = one !vote (cf AU HofReps) => big instances (~60,000 users/inst) dominate [1] https://codeberg.org/boud/fedistats_naive (commit b82f3b3)
@boud @breadbin @IChewPorridge Many folks (like me) also run small instances but post on large ones too. And this is because if a post of mine gets to be too popular, it can kill an instance. I discovered that problem three weeks ago.
"Kill" in what sense? cpu/bandwidth? or overwhelming the local timeline? I thought that downgrading replies from "global" to "unlisted" helped to avoid overwhelming local timelines.
@atomicpoet where are you pulling your stats from??
@azcoigreach Check alt text
@atomicpoet @mastodonusercount awesome, thanks
Tim Chambers
BluesMan@atomicpoet
More power to Mastodon.
More power to Mastodon.
Bernhard SchermerAbsolutely fantastic!!! A giant ThankYou to everyone keeping this place running and growing!
🙂🙏😊
Chris Fredregill@atomicpoet I’m sticking around because the accounts I care about are coming over from #Twitter and actively engaging in *this* community. Sure, there are some missing features, and not everyone has joined the party yet, but, at the end of the day, that’s all that many of us really care about.
John Samuel@atomicpoet Glad to see that Mastodon finally crossed the 8 million mark. Hoping to see more communities creating their own instances.
Geekmaster 👽
Mayank Vikash@atomicpoet congratulations to this awesome platform's contributors and supporters.
LinaB@atomicpoet congratulations #mastodon
Krystle the Actor@atomicpoet I already saw a screenshot from here on Facebook. I was like... I've seen this before...
LiliSu@atomicpoet Pleased to be part of it at an early stage.
Lee 🌏@atomicpoet
Why do you think more people will sign up?
Oh wait....
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/twitter-hate-speech-unprecedented-study-elon-musk_n_638a9d3ae4b0214ec97f7698
Why do you think more people will sign up?
Oh wait....
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/twitter-hate-speech-unprecedented-study-elon-musk_n_638a9d3ae4b0214ec97f7698
Florian Westreicher@atomicpoet is that a server local or estimated global number?
Hope 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴 SNP@atomicpoet fantastic news, but at some point the nasties are going to try and storm the keep…we need to be ever vigilant and report anything that goes against the supportive and inclusive culture we have here. And massive and total respect to all the admins for their tireless work and support ♥️
Anna B.@TheMorrigan @atomicpoet ohh the nasties exist and are here. They're just mostly defederated from the good servers.
@haybuhayko @atomicpoet yes, I’ve blocked a couple myself, but you are right, there are some appalling Instances out there. What grim and awful people they must be, totally consumed by anger at anything they don’t understand…
@atomicpoet Do we know what the sharp peaks in "thousand toots per hour" consist of or are triggered by?
ElwoodP@TimWardCam @atomicpoet Ironically probably retoots of the latest stupid tweet from Musk.
@atomicpoet
I was just sending my congratulation when I found my account for Chinese was blocked because I was trying to re-post a tweet that I like to mastodon.social. It's ridiculous. I'm going to quit for the heavy control on free speech.
I was just sending my congratulation when I found my account for Chinese was blocked because I was trying to re-post a tweet that I like to mastodon.social. It's ridiculous. I'm going to quit for the heavy control on free speech.
Rauf Rahman@atomicpoet I am one of those who joined at around that time! 😃
Glad to be part of this success.
Éibhear 🔭@atomicpoet As a matter of interest, is that a graph of mastodon-only instances and users? or ActivityPub-based instances and users? or something else?
Feynman 🔴@atomicpoet could be another ponzi 😂
Snagburz@atomicpoet
That's cool! The way to reply to a message here might be less user-friendly than on other social networks, but just the same more and more accounts are created!
That's cool! The way to reply to a message here might be less user-friendly than on other social networks, but just the same more and more accounts are created!
Henrique Jorge 
@atomicpoet Fantastic!
Tommy Never@atomicpoet. congrats!
@Tommy_Never @atomicpoet I am seeing RW trolls already. How do we keep from having them swarm this site?
@ke @atomicpoet I would say more moderation and vetting. It's really hard to avoid on Twitter and I respectfully hope it doesn't become a problem here. All I really want is to make comics and have a safe place to showcase that. It seems harder and harder to do.
Diane
Lee@atomicpoet
Ok. But stay on course.
Ok. But stay on course.
Wade Dorrell@atomicpoet How is this counted? Is it self-reported by all instances to a central counter, pulled from knowns? Does it include redirected accounts? I'm curious how it works! If you can point at source of the image I'm sure I can figure it out, tried to google but didn't find it!
@atomicpoet (Nevermind - I just noticed the image source. https://git.io/fNxgb)
@atomicpoet That's amazing. It's good to have a platform whose main goal isn't how much revenue it can generate.
Moving from Twitter to Mastodon has been extremely refreshing in a lot of ways.
I really hope it can remains this way (with a lot more users... of course).
Moving from Twitter to Mastodon has been extremely refreshing in a lot of ways.
I really hope it can remains this way (with a lot more users... of course).