Right… and still 99,99% of everything is held by bsky PDS and goes through their rely and appview… so much for "distributed federation"
No, the million of users sharing porn on entirely isolated mastodon instances that absolutely nobody wants to federate with because you'd be exposed to pictures of minors within 5 minutes do not count.
(Though I do agree it's partially irrelevant, depending on what problem you're trying to solve.)
yes, mastodon.social is big but there is more plurality. There is about 250k users on mastodon.social while whole fediverse is about 10 milion
On the other hand while tere is roughly 35 milion bluesky users there is only ~50k on non-blusky PDSes (https://blue.mackuba.eu/directory/pdses) so there's that…