@schestowitz the rise of Mastodon has been surprising, especially given that it was heavily criticized as being buggy and insular not so long ago. It's definitely encouraging to have that number of instances and it shows that there's real enthusiasm for the open web out there. I expect many of them will disappear, but even if it follows the usual 80/20 rule 20% of that is still a significant presence by historical standards for federated socnets.