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1. Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 08:19:54 UTC Chris Trottier

   • Eugen 💀

   There's no Mastodon slump.

   Sign-ups continue to increase -- albeit, not at the same rate as in November -- November was a spike.

   While Monthly Average Users (MAUs) decreased since November, it's increased again this month (according to @Gargron).

   But what's more interesting is that Half Year Average Users (HYAUs) is at a peak.

   And we're very close to breaking 1 billion posts per month!

   See chart.

   https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/stats

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 08:19:52 UTC Chris Trottier

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     The tech press would love Mastodon to fail and Bluesky to succeed.

     Why? Because it fits very neatly into a pre-determined narrative.

     Mastodon is supposedly made by a ragtag squad who flew too close to the sun.

     And Bluesky is supposedly made by Silicon Valley—they’re supposed to win.

     There’s nothing the tech press love more than an outcome that’s predetermined.

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 08:19:52 UTC Chris Trottier

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     The tech press very much want to frame this as Mastodon vs. Bluesky.

     But have they ever considered that if the protocol underlying Bluesky (AT protocol) ever took off, Mastodon could just use it—thereby talking to Bluesky?

     It’s as though their narrative of “competition” doesn’t work in this situation!

     Toni :mastodon: repeated this.
   • FediThing (fedithing@tech.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 08:19:52 UTC FediThing

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     @atomicpoet

     There is actually a precedent for this, Mastodon used to use a different protocol called Ostatus and a few years later switched to ActivityPub. No one noticed, all the account addresses and server URLs etc stayed the same, it just changed some techincal stuff behind the scenes.

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 08:19:53 UTC Chris Trottier

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     But this chart for Misskey is even more interesting to me. This is
     Average Misskey Total Users by Month.

     The growth is absurd -- and it has been validated by multiple sources.

     Misskey is part of the Fediverse, and it talks to Mastodon.

   • Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Apr-2023 08:19:53 UTC Chris Trottier

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     The armchair pundits who talk on and on about Mastodon's non-existent "slump" -- which I've shown isn't happening in a previous chart -- aren't even considering the broader Fediverse.

     Here's the Average Pixelfed Posts by Month.

     Does this look like a slump to you?