Mastodon monoculture problem

Mastodon-the-software is used by far by the most people on fedi. The biggest instance, mastodon.social, is home to over 200.000 active accounts as of this writing. This is roughly 1/10th of the whole Fediverse, on a single instance. Worse, Mastodon-the-software is often identified as the whole social network, obscuring the fact that Fediverse is a much broader system comprised of a much more diverse software.

Kierunkowy74,
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After writing that article:

  • Akkoma grew fivefold in Monthly Active Users (from 2 to 10 thousands), with much credit to mycrowd.ca
  • Lemmy and /kbin combined more then doubled, from over 1 thousand to almost 3 thousands
  • FediDB revealed, that the most active fediverse instance (by new post count) is actually misskey.io, not mastodon.social
kjr,
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@Kierunkowy74 That interesting, especially that the most active fediverse instance is misskey.io -- ok, interesting because I even didn't know about its existence, only about the software.

Packopus,
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It grew in popularity in Japan as a more cultural-inclusive Twitter alternative/internet experience. So it really blew up there.

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