It looks to me like Bluesky is now roughly neck and neck with the fediverse in terms of users (~12M each).
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It looks to me like Bluesky is now roughly neck and neck with the fediverse in terms of users (~12M each). Of course, Mastodon has roughly 9000x the number of instances, many of which serve individual communities far more deeply. But it looks like Bluesky will shortly be the bigger platform.
Fediverse will be a significantly larger platform when Threads joins fully.
But I would love to see a real fediverse-first platform designed to onboard as many people as possible.
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@ben I'm not sure where I'd look for this information, but I assume Bluesky has had more DAUs/MAUs than the fediverse for awhile now?
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yeah MAU is a much more useful number here than total accounts
Bluesky MAU is at 6.1M
Fedi MAU is at ~1.2Mhttps://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky_users_total.html
https://fedidb.org/
(misskey nodeinfo doesnt report mau correctly, but my best guess is around 200k) -
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Even more relevant is retention rate because it predicts future direction. Bluesky has spiked above 5 million MAU recently but seems to be losing those accounts at rapid clip. That's not terribly surprising - viral floods very rarely stick long term. Fedi (or at least Mastodon) has stuck around 2 million for most of the year, much smaller upward spikes but also much lower churn rate.
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@osma @tom @ben sure, retention rates matter, but for that to matter there first need to be spikes, and thats the part thats been missing from masto; last spike was in july 2023
dont think retention is bad for bsky either; after X was unbanned in Brazil 2/3 went back, and 1/3 stayed, which lead to a doubling in DAU pre-ban for total network size
