Mastodon numbers are crazy when compared to the rest of the software on that list. Makes me wonder just how many are active users and/or how many search "Mastodon" after Musk bought twitter, made an account on mastodon.social and left it.

Makes me wonder just how many are active users

MAU means "monthly active users". As you can see, the ratio MAU/users is not higher for Mastodon than it is for Lemmy.

For me, Mastodon was not very user friendly. I still jump on it every now and then but I'm still not comfortable with it yet.

For me, Mastodon was actually quite nice once I started following hashtags.

Wait, you can do that? Is it possible on the app?

Tapping on a hashtag generally gives an option to follow it. It works just like following a person.

Here's the option on Megalodon (which I'd guess is similar to the official app)

And here it is in Trunks