Thought it would be interesting to see the growth of the fediverse.
Monthly Active Users:
| Software | Current | Yesterday | Last week | Last Month | 3 Months Ago | 6 Months Ago | 1 Year Ago |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piefed | 2791 | 2547 | 2057 | 1987 | 1608 | 1619 | 155 |
| Lemmy | 36320 | 36213 | 35487 | 35232 | 36482 | 40903 | 42973 |
| Mbin | 770 | 769 | 746 | 701 | 725 | 916 | 719 |
| Threadiverse | 39881 | 39529 | 38290 | 37920 | 38815 | 43438 | 43847 |
| Mastodon | 743028 | 742320 | 732938 | 691835 | 676002 | 729320 | 821566 |
| Pixelfed | 118480 | 120952 | 116430 | 91956 | 90879 | 125028 | 99003 |
| Peertube | 29094 | 28913 | 28338 | 27772 | 21900 | 23805 | 34735 |
| Loops | 5578 | 5039 | 3021 | 2271 | 493 | 26652 | 16227 |
| Bookwyrm | 3761 | 3811 | 3744 | 3080 | 2977 | 2985 | 4995 |
| Friendica | 1482 | 1470 | 1442 | 1313 | 1501 | 1756 | 2547 |
| Total | 981185 | 981563 | 962493 | 894067 | 871382 | 996422 | 1066767 |
Difference:
| Software | -1 Day | -1 Week | -1 Month | -3 Month | -6 Month | -1 Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piefed | 244 | 734 | 804 | 1183 | 1172 | 2636 |
| Lemmy | 107 | 833 | 1088 | -162 | -4583 | -6653 |
| Mbin | 1 | 24 | 69 | 45 | -146 | 51 |
| Threadiverse | 352 | 1591 | 1961 | 1066 | -3557 | -3966 |
| Mastodon | 708 | 10090 | 51193 | 67026 | 13708 | -78538 |
| Pixelfed | -2472 | 2050 | 26524 | 27601 | -6548 | 19477 |
| Peertube | 181 | 756 | 1322 | 7194 | 5289 | -5641 |
| Loops | 539 | 2557 | 3307 | 5085 | -21074 | -10649 |
| Bookwyrm | -50 | 17 | 681 | 784 | 776 | -1234 |
| Friendica | 12 | 40 | 169 | -19 | -274 | -1065 |
| Total | -378 | 18692 | 87118 | 109803 | -15237 | -85582 |
Change (%):
| Software | -1 Day | -1 Week | -1 Month | -3 Month | -6 Month | -1 Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piefed | 9.6% | 35.7% | 40.5% | 73.6% | 72.4% | 1700.6% |
| Lemmy | 0.3% | 2.3% | 3.1% | -0.4% | -11.2% | -15.5% |
| Mbin | 0.1% | 3.2% | 9.8% | 6.2% | -15.9% | 7.1% |
| Threadiverse | 0.9% | 4.2% | 5.2% | 2.7% | -8.2% | -9.0% |
| Mastodon | 0.1% | 1.4% | 7.4% | 9.9% | 1.9% | -9.6% |
| Pixelfed | -2.0% | 1.8% | 28.8% | 30.4% | -5.2% | 19.7% |
| Peertube | 0.6% | 2.7% | 4.8% | 32.8% | 22.2% | -16.2% |
| Loops | 10.7% | 84.6% | 145.6% | 1031.4% | -79.1% | -65.6% |
| Bookwyrm | -1.3% | 0.5% | 22.1% | 26.3% | 26.0% | -24.7% |
| Friendica | 0.8% | 2.8% | 12.9% | -1.3% | -15.6% | -41.8% |
| Total | 0.0% | 1.9% | 9.7% | 12.6% | -1.5% | -8.0% |
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Note: Threadiverse is Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin. Fediverse only accounts for listed software [10] I’m curious about, not the other [119] software tracked by the website.
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Source: Fediverse-Observer
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Caveats: Only using 1 source, using two different sets of data within the same source (why 6 month and 1 year data seems off compared to the others, I didn’t dig through the code to figure out why that would be).
I may try to make an automated version of this, but I already bounced off the API today (never tried to code to interact with an API before).
Mods: Feel free to delete if its not appropriate in the community.
Edit: Added Difference table & Threadiverse and Fediverse rows after requested. Added Note about Threadiverse and Fediverse. Added clarity it is ‘Monthly Active Users’, not ‘Users’. Spelling.
As far as I know, Mastodon was specifically designed to be less addictive than xitter. Maybe Pixelfed was designed that way as well.