It's not that people aren't sticking around Mastodon.
There's more active users now than there were in September. Back then, there were only ~50,000 active users per month on mastodon.social.
It's that a certain segment of registrations were done either in protest, or as a Plan "B" if the Plan "A" (Twitter continues to be a going concern) fails.
That said, if Mastodon is seen merely as a Twitter alternative it will fail.
It's not a Twitter alternative.
I do believe Twitter is dying.
It's just that it takes a long time for social networks to die.
The first step in killing a social network is killing the culture around it.
Twitter's culture is still alive, but it has cancer.
Since October, the most exciting thing about Mastodon is that the tech has now been validated.
App developers are now actively developing apps for Mastodon and the Fediverse.
Better apps are coming. And more too.
Even designers are getting excited about custom CSS themes.
Mastodon is currently adding ~1 million new users per month.
Sign ups might slow down.
But that means by end of 2023, there will likely be 15-20 million Mastodon users.
This isn't even counting the rest of the Fediverse.
@atomicpoet I am more interested in MAU count. Adding users is one, retaining them is a whole different ball of wax.
Currently it seems that Fediverse MAU is holding at just above 3mln. It's not been below 3mln since Nov 18th.
https://the-federation.info/
This is great news. I'd need to do the math properly on new accounts vs. MAU to double-check, but it does seem that a large chunk of new accounts remain active.
Plus, Users Per Node number is also dropping at the same time. Amaze. 🎉
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