Re:Decentralized social media, and the fragmentation of control
by zaarn on Thursday December 14, 2017 @04:27AM
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Most of those are probably Japanese accounts, which while still being real accounts, isn't comfortable with the Twitter crowd due to the kind of media usually shared on the japanese instances (the kind of content which is illegal in the US and most of the rest of the world but totally fine in Japan, which is another reason for Mastodon tbh)
> With around 100,000 users on mastodon.social — the biggest instance — it is just 0.03% the size of Twitter, and only growing at a rate of 1,000 users per week. > To give you an idea of the scale compared to Twitter: Mastodon is 13 months old and at that same age, Twitter was around 10 times bigger.
The Mastodon Monitoring Project (https://mnm.social) estimates 1,019,544 accounts across the nearly 2300 instances it knows about. Around ten times bigger than the number this person was comparing to Twitter.
I guess that means Mastodon is growing about as fast as Twitter did!