Just wondering as im curious and im still learning.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    14 days ago

    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:

    https://mastodon-analytics.com/

    There are presently about 750k “active users” on Mastodon.

    • Pamasich@kbin.earth
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      4 days ago

      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.

    • Grumpy404@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Good to know, ive never used twitter because the horrible things ive heard about it, but how does this platform compare? im trying to learn towards using more free and open source software, but i would say im failing at that atleast the open source ones, i still use a ton of free software.

      • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
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        14 days ago

        Mastodon is more centered around specific people you choose to follow, everything is in chronological order, regardless of topic or if it’s a reply to someone else. Lemmy has threaded replies and the topic is more in focus.

  • adr1an@programming.devEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I liked piefed until I learnt about the hidden filters. But still, I see their point. There are dozens of lefties here! Dozens!!

  • ahmedezat_katteb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    If you want to watch the numbers yourself, FediDB (fedidb.org) and fediverse.observer list each software by number of servers and monthly active users. MAU is a fairer measure than total accounts, since lots of accounts are dead.

    Roughly: Mastodon is by far the biggest, for microblogging. On the Reddit-style side you’re on now (people call it the “threadiverse”), Lemmy is the largest, with PieFed and Mbin as the main alternatives, and they all federate with each other, so you can follow the same communities from any of them. Misskey and its forks are also big, especially with Japanese users.

    Since you’re learning: make an account on one and follow a person or community that lives on a different software. Seeing a Mastodon post show up here as a thread is the moment federation clicks.