@alexl "It was very frustrating for us to essentially feel blocked from contributing - design or code - in the existing free desktop communities. It was weird when it became more productive to collaborate with KDE than with the core GNOME maintainers." — Mark Shuttleworth
Do you like #Mastodon ?
Probably you would love #Matrix too, it's decentralized like Mastodon but it's a replacement for instant messaging apps (like #Whatsapp #XMPP #Telegram #Wire #Signal etc), chat rooms (like #IRC #Slack etc) and VoIP (like #Skype #Hangouts #Ring etc).
Matrix basically is a protocol, like e-mails, and it's explained at matrix.org, read the FAQs, are really interesting).
Apps can implement Matrix, the best client is #Riot (https://riot.im), available for Web and mobile.
Beyond the impressive statistics of new accounts, I would love to know about these stats, which may give a different picture:
* How many _active_ accounts (ie. who connected more than just a few times say over one day or two then never connected again)?
* How many _participating_ accounts, active and with at least one toot?
Would be interesting to get this stats at least from a few instances so we could try a rough interpolation of the rest..