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What is Sharkey? A fork of Misskey, which I also don't know. I imagine Sharkey does much the same things as Lemmy? It is almost as large, and seems to have grown rather quickly.
Is there someone who can provide background for these?
And why is Mastodon so huge? Are they including Threads as a part of it?
No Sharkey/Misskey is more like Mastodon, but with more playful features like emoji reactions and animated text.
Threads is not included, but Mastodon had a lot more Twitter refugees.
Misskey and Sharkey are micro blogging platforms, more similar to Mastodon and Twitter rather than Lemmy.
Mastodon is much older than Lemmy. Not sure if they count Threads
Threads allegedly has 100's of millions of users, plus it's not even federated with Mastodon. There's no way that Threads users are counted in the Mastodon statistics