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Mastodon actually has 407K+ more monthly users than it thought | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Haus@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social

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Open source and decentralized social network Mastodon has more users than it thought. The service, which competes with X (formerly Twitter) and other newcomers like Threads, Bluesky, Pebble, and Spill, had been undercounting its users due to a network connectivity error.

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[–] ripcord@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For anyone curious:

That leaves Mastodon with a total of 1.8 million monthly active users at present, an increase of 5% month-over-month and 10,000 servers, up 12%

Incidentally, average of 180 users per server seems...low to me.

[–] runefehay@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

180 users/server seems high to me, but it is probably the huge instances (such as mastodon.social) driving up the average. There are countless small instances, but users on the big servers mostly don't notice them.