Mastodawn

I've had 20 sign ups to my Mastodon server in the past 48 hours, and 100% of them have been scammers, phishers and SEO spammers.

I make an effort to go in and suspend the accounts, nobody ever protests the suspension.

The fediverse is at a crossroads, the user base is dwindling and the new users are mostly just SEO spam accounts.

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Kevin Beaumont 1d ago

For those who don't think the user base is dwindling, a few years ago Mastodon was celebrating about 2m monthly active users. Nowadays it's 0.7m.

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Klaus Frank 1d ago

@GossiTheDog

I think this is mainly because a lot of users are quitting social media entirely. This is not isolated to just mastodon from what I can tell.

Like I lost contact to a lot of online acquaintances so far because they deleted ALL of their social media and went entirely offline.

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Kevin Beaumont 1d ago

@agowa338 I don't think that's the case, Threads has hundreds of millions of active users for example - TikTok etc pulling record numbers too.

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Klaus Frank

@GossiTheDog

Well and how many of those are companies or AI generated garbage accounts.

Either by users that just generate AI videos and upload them or directly because of someone setting up hundreds of accounts and filling all of them with AI garbage or stolen content.