I knew that #Mastodon is big in #Japan but mstdn.jp activity figures are wild.
Since November it's stable around 400k registered users, most of which go inactive for months at a time. But in the past 4 days, 200k of them returned active. That would account for half of the increase in MAU as measured by @fediverse.
Is this just the effect of word of mouth off-fediverse?
@nemobis@fediverse they are even more affected by the Twitter meltdown than the US is, maybe? I remember hearing Twitter was bigger in Japan than in the US, if you consider per capita.
@chiasm Yes, much bigger, but a much smaller portion of Twitter users joined the fediverse in Japan compared to, say, Germany (which is ten times smaller on Twitter). I thought the recent spikes in MAU were mostly newly registered users, but no, they are old registered users coming back in droves. This looks like external coordination.
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