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.
But it looks like it jumped to 2 million pretty rapidly at the end of 2022.
The question to me would be was that real? Because if that wasn't then Mastodon is up from about 500,000.
https://joinmastodon.org/reports/Mastodon%20Annual%20Report%202022.pdf
Note that this was a very quick search and I didn't look at the other annual reports for their numbers. I just looked at a chart that showed the 2 million monthly users dropping pretty rapidly then another spike, then dropping overtime to the 700 something thousand
Kevin Beaumont
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