8,478,627 accounts
+3,988 in the last hour
+32,693 in the last day
+191,813 in the last week
@mastodonusercount Oh wow, I guess banning the official Mastodon account, and a bunch of journalists critical of Elon really pushed the needle.
@boud @mastodonusercount @piccolbo It's only plateauing because it relies on https://instances.social/ for full functionality, and that site is getting hugged to death right now.
1/3
It seems to me that only the instance list, ~100 new per day currently, comes from instances.social. So most of the numbers of accounts given by @mastodonusercount come from crawling the instances themselves.
My power law fits [1] of the numbers of instances use the https://instances.social/instances.json file rather than crawling, so these get lower (older) numbers.
@Alex @piccolbo @nemobis @mastodonusercount
2/3
* There are more small instances from 1 to 560 users on 16 Dec compared to 21 Nov; this steepens the power law fit [1].
* From 21 Nov to 16 Dec, we went from three instances in the 56k to 100k range to nine instances: this population of instances *tripled* [1].
@Alex @piccolbo @nemobis @mastodonusercount
3/4
* 56k–100k: techhub.social 57535, masto.ai 60446, c.im 61212, mastodon.uno 61337, mastodonapp.uk 63299, universeodon.com 64551, mastodon.sdf.org 65395, pixelfed.social 69862, mastodon.lol 76698
* 100k-178k: gc2.jp 100254, mastodon.world 131153, mas.to 136153, mstdn.social 159803, counter.social 163615, mastodon.online 166758
@Alex @piccolbo @nemobis @mastodonusercount
4/4
* 178k-316k: mastodon.cloud 233322, mstdn.jp 299165
* 316k-562k: (none)
* 562k-1M: pawoo.net 794142, mastodon.social 918076
[1] data + code: https://codeberg.org/boud/fedistats_naive (commit c4d47a3)
#MastodonStatistics #FediverseStatistics #BirdsitePurge #MastodonMigration
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@Alex @mastodonusercount @piccolbo
#BirdsitePurge => #BirdsiteMigrationFourthWave
Let's see in 24–48 hours how high peak 4 is compared to the previous ones...