Nemo_bis 🌈

I knew that #Mastodon is big in #Japan but mstdn.jp activity figures are wild.

Since November it's stable around 400k registered users, most of which go inactive for months at a time. But in the past 4 days, 200k of them returned active. That would account for half of the increase in MAU as measured by @fediverse.

Is this just the effect of word of mouth off-fediverse?

(A local stats glitch is possible. Cf. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/25700 .)

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Provide an active user count which is not dominated by new registrations · Issue #25700 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch When reporting on the activity in the fediverse and Mastodon, people are often confused by the fact that the MAU figure is inflated in periods of higher than usual new registrations, even if ...

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Jul 4, 2023 at 1:20pmWeb
Show threadchiasmJul 4, 2023
@nemobis @fediverse they are even more affected by the Twitter meltdown than the US is, maybe? I remember hearing Twitter was bigger in Japan than in the US, if you consider per capita.
Show threadNemo_bis 🌈Jul 4, 2023
@chiasm Yes, much bigger, but a much smaller portion of Twitter users joined the fediverse in Japan compared to, say, Germany (which is ten times smaller on Twitter). I thought the recent spikes in MAU were mostly newly registered users, but no, they are old registered users coming back in droves. This looks like external coordination.