Monthly Active Users:
| Software | Current | Yesterday[1D] | Last Week[7D] | Last Month[30D] | 3 Months Ago[90D] | 6 Months Ago[6M] | 1 Year Ago[12M] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piefed | 5460 | 4923 | 4738 | 2026 | 1584 | 1666 | 260 |
| Lemmy | 36071 | 36996 | 36510 | 35624 | 35811 | 40133 | 47182 |
| Mbin | 822 | 811 | 795 | 744 | 757 | 906 | 860 |
| Threadiverse | 42353 | 42730 | 42043 | 38394 | 38152 | 42705 | 48302 |
| Mastodon | 512437 | 741297 | 749916 | 729258 | 672733 | 690496 | 844236 |
| Pixelfed | 110390 | 100508 | 103924 | 114965 | 82325 | 96797 | 304563 |
| Peertube | 37257 | 28211 | 29431 | 27906 | 26560 | 23452 | 34627 |
| Loops | 8006 | 7961 | 7706 | 2613 | 1840 | 26939 | 26110 |
| Bookwyrm | 1616 | 1338 | 1460 | 3759 | 2846 | 3020 | 7005 |
| Friendica | 2627 | 1693 | 1578 | 1411 | 1353 | 1732 | 4279 |
| Forgejo | 121 | 86 | 501 | 507 | 419 | 327 | 644 |
| Funkwhale | 269 | 225 | 233 | 266 | 199 | 248 | 483 |
| Flohmarkt | 30 | 27 | 37 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Fediverse | 715106 | 924076 | 936829 | 919105 | 826432 | 885716 | 1270249 |
Difference:
| Software | -1 Day[1D] | -1 Week[7D] | -1 Month[30D] | -3 Months[90D] | -6 Months[6M] | -1 Year[12M] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piefed | 537 | 722 | 3434 | 3876 | 3794 | 5200 |
| Lemmy | -925 | -439 | 447 | 260 | -4062 | -11111 |
| Mbin | 11 | 27 | 78 | 65 | -84 | -38 |
| Threadiverse | -377 | 310 | 3959 | 4201 | -352 | -5949 |
| Mastodon | -228860 | -237479 | -216821 | -160296 | -178059 | -331799 |
| Pixelfed | 9882 | -4575 | 28065 | 28065 | 13593 | -194173 |
| Peertube | 9046 | 7826 | 9351 | 10697 | 13805 | 2630 |
| Loops | 45 | 300 | 5393 | 6166 | -18933 | -18104 |
| Bookwyrm | 278 | 156 | -2143 | -1230 | -1404 | -5389 |
| Friendica | 934 | 1049 | 1216 | 1274 | 895 | -1652 |
| Forgejo | 35 | -380 | -386 | -298 | -206 | -523 |
| Funkwhale | 44 | 36 | 3 | 70 | 21 | -214 |
| Flohmarkt | 3 | -7 | 4 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| Fediverse | -208970 | -221723 | -203999 | -111326 | -170610 | -555143 |
Change (%):
| Software | -1 Day[1D] | -1 Week[7D] | -1 Month[30D] | -3 Months[90D] | -6 Months[6M] | -1 Year[12M] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piefed | 10.9% | 15.2% | 169.5% | 244.7% | 227.7% | 2000.0% |
| Lemmy | -2.5% | -1.2% | 1.3% | 0.7% | -10.1% | -23.5% |
| Mbin | 1.4% | 3.4% | 10.5% | 8.6% | -9.3% | -4.4% |
| Threadiverse | -0.9% | 0.7% | 10.3% | 11.0% | -0.8% | -12.3% |
| Mastodon | -30.9% | -31.7% | -29.7% | -23.8% | -25.8% | -39.3% |
| Pixelfed | 9.8% | -4.0% | 34.1% | 34.1% | 14.0% | -63.8% |
| Peertube | 32.1% | 26.6% | 33.5% | 40.3% | 58.9% | 7.6% |
| Loops | 0.6% | 3.9% | 206.4% | 335.1% | -70.3% | -69.3% |
| Bookwyrm | 20.8% | 10.7% | -57.0% | -43.2% | -46.5% | -76.9% |
| Friendica | 55.2% | 66.5% | 86.2% | 94.2% | 51.7% | -38.6% |
| Forgejo | 40.7% | -75.8% | -76.1% | -71.1% | -63.0% | -81.2% |
| Funkwhale | 19.6% | 15.5% | 1.1% | 35.2% | 8.5% | -44.3% |
| Flohmarkt | 11.1% | -18.9% | 15.4% | 500.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Fediverse | -22.6% | -23.7% | -22.2% | -13.5% | -19.3% | -43.7% |
- Note: Threadiverse is Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin. Fediverse only accounts for listed software [12], not the other [117] software tracked by the website.
- Source: Fediverse-Observer
- Caveats: Only using 1 source, using two different sets of data within the same source (why 6 month[6M] and 1 year[12M] data seems off compared to the others[*D], I didn't dig through the code to figure out why that would be).
Takeaways:
- Big growth in the Fediverse this week (ex. ~~Mastodon >50%, Lemmy and~~ Piefed >10%). Looks like the Fediverse-Observer software updated yesterday and found(?) a bunch of previously unknown servers (10-50%). Due to the change, my API code now works and made this post far easier :)
- Piefed and Loops had positive growth each day last week
- Congrats to Piefed (>5000 MAU) ~~and PeerTube (>40,000 MAU)~~ for reaching All-Time highs
- Forgejo lost a server in the last week that had ~80% of its users (20260217)
- ~~Fediverse bigger than it was a 12 months ago!~~
Mods: Again, feel free to delete if its not appropriate in the community.
- Edit: Fixed Threadiverse Change (%)s. Known bug, ~~will fix for next time~~ (already fixed).
- Edit: Added another takeaway. Changed the code to be more accurate and added the result (a couple numbers slightly changed)
- Edit: Rimu of Piefed found a bug in the Fediverse-Observer server list (duplicates). I looked through and found a few more duplicates. The data for those 4 software (Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed and Peertube) have been adjusted to be accurate with the removed duplicates. Fediverse-Observer dev has been notified of the issue.
- Note: Fediverse-Observer dev is now aware of the issue. The issue is caused by either server mis-configurations or bad actors trying to inflate numbers. The dev is working on a method to clean up or filter out the issue. I'll check next week for duplicates and adjust numbers accordingly if they are still there.
Never had twitter, but recently made a mastodon account to contact the fediverse-observer developer about a bug.
I played around with it a bit the few times I used it, but I don't think I really gave it a good shot to know if it was worthwhile.
I feel like short blog form is for following people and there's not really anyone I want to follow on any social media. So, if you want to follow people it may be worth it.
Also, you should probably get another opinion from someone who actually uses mastodon regularly.