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.
I was just thinking this morning, I’ve massively enjoyed my time on lemmy&piefed largely because it’s so much less time consuming than reddit, twitter and insta. One day the threadiverse might have as many comms as reddit has major subreddits, but even then I expect it will be less time consuming than Reddit was Lemmy’s design just helps you have restraint.