Mastodon has hit 2 million active users today. 🎉
@GossiTheDog Uh, I have to check my crawler ^^ Seems it is less instances but more MAUs.
@GossiTheDog it is at the size where I find what I need. Critical Mass has been achieved. There's no longer need for me to visit the bird app.
@GossiTheDog Yummy, 350 million left to Twitter ^^
Well, this is not the goal I know. But when asking twittos why they don’t switch to Mastodon, some say they look at the potential audience… especially the scientists and the journalists.
@GossiTheDog and 200 million active users on Twitter.
@guillaumepetit @GossiTheDog After a week on Threads, I think Fedi is better off for not attracting the people/organizations just looking for free marketing channels.
@GossiTheDog Versus the over 13 million Mastodon accounts. How does this compare with Twitter, Threads and other platforms?
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Attached: 2 images "#Mastodon is thriving: new users stick with it, finding it extraordinarily easy and delightful to use" What do you say? That's not the headline you've read? Arguably, of some 3 million new users in November-December, 2 million were still active a month later. That would be a new user retention some *four times* higher than Twitter's on Android (16 %), as we just learnt from Similarweb. https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/social-media-news/threads/ Where are the UX experts trying to figure out this incredible success? #FediStats

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@GossiTheDog accounts.

I have three accounts.

@markhughes @GossiTheDog I have five because *reasons*. Bell curve, etc. but my feeling is that that MAU number is probably double the actual number of individuals.
@GossiTheDog What provides those statistics?
@rolle @GossiTheDog the project has a script that goes and polls active users for every host it knows about each day.
@rolle @GossiTheDog that's a good question, I don't know where the actual script source is.
@GossiTheDog Das Traurige ist leider, das #Threads 100m aktive Nutzer haben soll. Ohne das Europa wirklich dabei ist.
@NickBohle @GossiTheDog I'm quite sure that #europe will follow, too. They just rushed the lanch because they saw an opening based on what was happening with #twitter.
@GossiTheDog there might be a learning curve for users to convert from Twitter, but I been so much happier since making the jump!
@GossiTheDog Was there a huge spike in growth since Meta launched #Threads? That's why I joined (try not to judge me too harshly)
@GossiTheDog and might we extend a warm welcome to the cat people among that bunch of two million.
@GossiTheDog super duper hope this continues to grow!
@GossiTheDog @Barredo Where my lethargic users at?
@GossiTheDog Do you know where the count difference with https://mastodon.help/instances
comes from ?
They count 1.5 milion active monthly users
Mastodon Help - Instances

Mastodon instances

Asking the experts. With the media giving all the publicity and attention that Threads needs, will the Fediverse ever catch up or receive the same publicity again? Or has it lost the race?
@GossiTheDog oooh where is this network health dashboard at?