mastodon.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

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The Many Voices of Anne Ahlert

@Sarahp

FYI...
At last count, has around 5 Million users and has around 15.5 Million users. Unlike , none of the Mastodon accounts are bots created merely to build the follower counts of celebrities, manipulate voters, and bring in ad dollars.

Almost all of the accounts here are real people engaging in positive, uplifting feed. Trolls have no algorithm to help them build a following. Ads are not allowed.

There is no "competition" for that.

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@TheManyVoices @Sarahp But how many of those 15M are active accounts? Around 1 mln monthly as fast as I know, unless you have better data.

@mackuba @Sarahp

I'm not sure where you found your numbers.

I do know that it has been my experience and that of other users that interactions here are at a far higher rate (ratio'd to followers) than on Xitter -- FAR more Likes, RTs, and replies for the lower follower/following counts we tend to have on Mastodon (vs Xitter).

This tells me that a much higher percentage of accounts here are active and frequently used than there.

@mackuba @Sarahp

You also cannot base your data only on the Mastodon app user count. There are multiple apps to access and the , including and . Not everyone accesses Mastodon through the same doors.

@TheManyVoices FediDB and mastodon-analytics.com/ both show around or below 1M, I think they take this data from instances' APIs. And yeah, I know way more followers are "real" here than on Twitter, just saying it's not 15M active users, just a total.

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