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 think 10 million is the number to watch. I think once we hit that it'll take off, because 10 million people are enough to be paid attention to. Considering we'll probably hit 8 million by the end of this week it could happen by the end of the year.
@Tweetfiction just trying to work out how you get from 5.5 million to 8 million in four days? :)
@ntp Where are you pulling 5.5 from? The number is 7.8 based on the stats I'm seeing.
@Tweetfiction oh...um I was working from this page - https://mastodon.help/instances/en
Mastodon Help - Instances

Mastodon instances

@ntp interesting, I've been going off of @mastodonusercount. I wonder what the difference is?
@Tweetfiction @mastodonusercount that is very weird. Two sets of stats, 3 million apart? Need expert help. Is there a Mastodon equivalent of the bat signal? #mastodonhelp ?