Mastodon recently hit 1 million active users. It has about 2.89 million total us...

tigerlily · on Oct 21, 2021

I followed this link and using the Server Wizard found that my biggest local instance is run by an experienced FOSS and business guru in my hometown. Thanks. I have to meet this guy now.

ampdepolymerase · on Oct 21, 2021

Are they including Gab users in the MAU count?

commoner · on Oct 22, 2021

No, since Gab does not federate with mainline Mastodon instances anymore.* I'm not sure if Gab discloses its stats the same way other instances do.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25715513

gfosco · on Oct 22, 2021

Gab is separate, and significantly larger than the entire fediverse combined.

tga_d · on Oct 24, 2021

Do you have a source for that? My impression is that Gab is significantly smaller than the Fediverse (Wikipedia says ~100,000 active users).

gfosco · on Oct 24, 2021

Well I'm the CTO there so I am a source... but you don't have to trust me really, you can check https://www.similarweb.com/website/gab.com/ and https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gab.com#section_traffic and draw your own conclusions.

For some things, Wikipedia is a really bad source. Especially about things they hate.

tga_d · on Oct 25, 2021

Well, the source is The Interecpt, based on leaked internal data, which I trust a lot more than stat aggregators like Alexa. If you're the CTO then you could just answer the question: how many accounts (or unique IPs, if multiple accounts is common) have posted something in the past month?