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1M new Mastodon accounts were created in the past month

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39 pointsZacnyLos15 comments

After using Mastadon for a little over 3 months now I am more sure than ever that it will not and can not replace Twitter. Specifically for your every day, normal non techie user.

The decentralised model just isn't user friendly enough. It's confusing and too circle jerky. It's difficult to find someone, hell even just selecting a server to host your account is a pain.

It's definitely not a Twitter killer.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

And the problem is its mostly fixable, its just bone headed design decisions.

Like limiting search, not showing the tweet replied to in the timeline, not backfilling external accounts and so on and so fourth.

Well I'm curious when the normies join because whenever I check the Explore tab it's always the same. Like right now:

- republicans bad

- nazis bad

- fediverse stats

- nazis bad

- musk bad

- fediverse good

- chatgpt

- nazis bad

- corporations bad

- republicans bad

etc.

Where are the video games, celebs, Kpop stans, sport highlights?

It's very rare to se an homepage/explore tab with this amount of pure truth, sounds amazing!

It depends on the instance you're using. You can always change it to more suited to your peers.

I love the concept, I think we're waiting for that tidal shift now. Hopefully something big enough happens so that people move en masse, otherwise I fear a slow slide into worsening and worsening conditions on Twitter. :'(

NPR boycotting Twitter might be a sign.

If NPR moves anywhere it's more likely to be something like post.news than Mastodon.

I predict they'll be back on Twitter within a few weeks. Twitter's gravity is still too intense to escape, especially for media orgs and journos.

Yeah and most of them won't remain active.

now the real question is: is it more than the number of new accounts created on twitter?

That's not the real question. Mastodon can be successful without beating Twitter's numbers.

Is that a lot? How many new accounts were created April 2022?

I was mildly curious to see if that was hiding in the timeline of the posted account (named @mastodonusercount) but since the thing posts every hour and the Mastodon API paginates 40 at a time, and there do not appear to be any facets in their search api (https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/search/#query-paramete...) that would enable date ranges, then I guess it's just a mystery for the ages. I tried being crafty with offset=10000 to see if I could massively skip backward but nope

Fediverse.observer indicates 111k new accounts in Apr 2022 across many fediverse platforms including mastodon. Currently, mastodon has about 70-75% market share by accounts. It seems to be approx 10x growth YoY.

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