Mastodon bump is now a slump

I honestly don't think this is too surprising. When a new thing is created that piques peoples interest they may create an account to try it out. A percentage of them will use it daily, some weekly and some will loose interest when it does not meet their expectations. De-provisioning or canceling accounts takes effort and walking away takes zero effort.

I expect a similar pattern with all the AI services that are popping up. People will create accounts to try it out and the active accounts will plateau. Some percentage of accounts will stagnate as very few systems remove inactive accounts in the hope that the person returns and becomes a regular contributing patron. I believe this will be further exacerbated when these services start restricting or rate-limiting what is offered for free.

I wonder how many dead accounts are because people switched instances or because instances closed down?

Is there any interesting traffic stats from Mastodon?

It's a shame that Mastodon never took off or retained users even after twitter was taken over.

I argue that as soon as people were tasked to 'choose a server' that was an instant 98% drop-off and stuck on Twitter.

I don't even care about this slight slump. For me it is still a much better experience on Mastodon, more engagement and more meaningful conversations and information. All this despite having much smaller number of people which I follow and who follow me. Just in general a lot more pleasant experience on mastodon. Quality over quantity, actually a real social network and not some propaganda/advertisement network that both Twitter and Facebook have become.