• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    I mean thanks to bridgy you can communicate across blusky and mastodon. For example people can follow my mastodon account on bluesky.

    And bluesky has gained > 8 million users in the past couple months. Mastodon has 900 odd thousand MAU.

    So clearly the majority have gone to one.

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      I don’t know where you got that number from, but at least these statistics say Mastodon got 9 million users (but not all are active off course, same should be true for BlueSky): https://mastodon-analytics.com/ And this account claims 15 million: https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount and a Wikipedia article says “On 19 March 2023, Mastodon passed the ten million mark for registered user accounts”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)#2022_Twitter-related_spikes_in_adoption

      Now, I do not claim these numbers to be correct. But compared to your estimation its vastly different.

      Edit: Just for context of my reply, as you edited yours. You said you don’t believe Mastodon would even have 100 thousand users.

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        Even if your numbers are true. Mastodon has existed for 7 years. Bluesky for less than one.

        So logically the precentage of users to active users should be much higher on Bluesky.

        Also number of accounts is possibly a bad metric to judge mastodon because of the federation.

        For example, I have 8 mastodon accounts (tried a couple different instances and programmed a couple rss bots to give me a news feed).

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      Comparing users to MAU seems disingenuous. The fediverse has ~12 million users, according to fedidb and around 1.1 million active ones.

      Most of them on Mastodon.

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      I mean thanks to bridgy you can communicate across blusky and mastodon.

      It requires to use a separate app like this which is not very convenient.