After a discussion with our friend @ramsey over on phpc.social, we decided to move the @tek account over to here. it just seemed to make sense. PHP Community always looking after one another. #globalCommunity
I haven't been following it very closely but looks like Mastodon's monthly active user count climbed back up to 2.1M over the last couple of weeks. Not far off from our last peak!
But your question is valid, as the Global South is totally underrepresented.
Mastodon is still strongly dominated by white North America and Europe. Japan has some very large instances, but there is limited interaction. Latin/South America is also growing.
With every new wave, some new regions join, I saw in the last wave entering many Turkish accounts, for example.
The network effect is a thing. We need to be welcoming to people from these places and invest some time to make the early adopters feel comfortable (e.g. by boosting them to facilitate them to find their peers).
For a more diverse Fediverse! :fediverso: :black_sparkling_heart: