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What is the most active/popular fediverse project?
Just wondering as im curious and im still learning.
Replying to @Grumpy404@lemmy.zip
In terms of users, it’ll be Mastodon, the Twitter-alike.
goes looking for numbers
This doesn’t indicate whether “active users” is monthly active users (MAU), which is probably the most-common metric for social media, but based on this:
There are presently about 750k “active users” on Mastodon.
EDIT: Oh, fediverse.observer does have statistics, and says that theirs are MAU.
According to that, they’re at 912k MAU, so maybe that active user count above is something like weekly active.
mastodon.fediverse.observer/stats
Here on the Threadiverse:
Lemmy has about 50k MAU.
lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
Piefed about 6k MAU:
piefed.fediverse.observer/stats
And Mbin about 900 MAU:
Mastodon AnalyticsMastodon AnalyticsHow many users, active users, servers are on Mastodon?Replying to @tal@lemmy.today
so maybe that active user count above is something like weekly active
Every instance provides its MAU publically on request, but there's no centralized server they all send their MAU to proactively. Third party websites trying to display an overall MAU have to manually check instances, for which they need to be aware of them to. Then add up the numbers.
As a result, different sites can display different MAU because they're aware of and checking different instances.
There's no weekly active users provided by instances, so I really doubt it's that. Instances only provide monthly and half year numbers.