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This happened quickly…Lemmy is now the second biggest platform next to mastodon!?!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Mastodon numbers are crazy when compared to the rest of the software on that list. Makes me wonder just how many are active users and/or how many search "Mastodon" after Musk bought twitter, made an account on mastodon.social and left it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Makes me wonder just how many are active users

MAU means "monthly active users". As you can see, the ratio MAU/users is not higher for Mastodon than it is for Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Uhh am I missing something? Linked page says Mastodon has 1 million mau, while for lemmy it says just below 40 000 mau?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

They were talking about MAU Vs Users, which is similar (mastodon has like x 40 in each)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For me, Mastodon was not very user friendly. I still jump on it every now and then but I'm still not comfortable with it yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Out of curiosity, what were some things you found hard to get used to about Mastodon?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For me, Mastodon was actually quite nice once I started following hashtags.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

For me, Mastodon is a great metal band.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Wait, you can do that? Is it possible on the app?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

... and then went back to twitter, but did not deactivate their #Fediverse account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or like me, tried 3 different ones before finding a fourth that worked.

I'm not a Twitter person pes se but it was the only (that I knew about, sadly) decentralized thing on the web that could replace reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I tried Twitter long long ago. I did not enjoy it. I tried Mastodon. And strangely I understand it better than I understand Twitter.

Weird I know. And I can't explain it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

@mbryson @maegul
According to the CEO of Mastodon last time I chatted with him, the software tracks log-ins, so people like me, who do not log out and in again, would be invisible. So I would say with a certain level of confidence that those are active users you are seeing. Unless he changed the code of course, but it did not seem to be high on his ToDo list.