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The graphs that show the decline of X and the rise of the rest.

2024-12-16 11:58:39

mho@social.heise.de

Another week is over, time for new stats regarding traffic to @heiseonline: It seems like there is a new balance with #Mastodon in front, #Bluesky brings now half as much. Although we stopped posting to #X, it still brings in more than #Threads and roughly as much as #Flipboard.

(? 1/4)

2024-12-16 11:58:47

Martin Holland

mho@social.heise.de

If you combine #Mastodon, #Flipboard and #Bluesky into the #Fediverse, they are not that far from #Facebook. But of course, that's a bit of a stretch (at least for now).
But what's clear, is that Flipboard is not as strong as before. Any tips, on how to get more out of @Flipboard?

(? 2/4)

2024-12-16 11:58:56

Martin Holland

mho@social.heise.de

Another interesting graph is the one showing, where our followers are: Almost 99% use #Mastodon, but the (tiny) rest is pretty diverse. Here at least, the promise of the #Fediverse has not yet really been fulfilled.

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2024-12-16 11:59:05

Martin Holland

mho@social.heise.de

And to put the rest in context: #Bluesky and #Flipboard still bring by far the most traffic per follower. #Mastodon is now a little bit behind #Facebook. #Threads and #X bring way, way less.

#SocialMedia

(? 4/4)

2024-12-16 13:21:02

Rangers

rangers@fosstodon.org

@mho while the majority is using Mastodon and therefore one could argue the promise of the fediverse is not fulfilled, the users are spread across many independent Mastodon instances. The fediverse exists but it would be great if we would also have and use a great variety of software to connect with the fediverse.

2024-12-17 09:34:09

T_X

T_X@chaos.social

@mho which promise?
I'm wondering how such a graph with the followers multiplied by their followers(' followers) would look like. As on Mastodon the algorithm works differently.

2024-12-19 07:44:20

Winnie 🏳️‍🌈

winniehell@mastodon.de

@mho I would argue that the promise is not / can not be that the Fediverse IS diverse (from a technical point of view) but that it CAN be.

to a certain degree this was also the case for Twitter prior to making the API more restrictive / locking third party apps out.

2024-12-19 09:52:49

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Winnie ?️‍? The Fediverse itself is diverse. And I'm not talking about various Mastodon apps. I'm not talking about Mona vs IceCubes vs Tusky vs Fedilab vs the official Web interface. I'm talking about vastly different server applications: Mastodon vs Iceshrimp vs Hubzilla vs Lemmy vs PeerTube.

The Fediverse is diverse enough for some Mastodon users to actually be disturbed by this diversity. Just look at my profile, look around the entire server instance, and tell me how close it is to Mastodon. Or look at the mention. Mastodon doesn't turn mentions into long names. Or look at the length of this comment. This is not a case of a hacked character limit. This is a case of there never having been any character limit in twelve years.

It's just that many other Mastodon users don't notice it because they're in a bubble that's almost or entirely only Mastodon.

The Mastodon-to-non-Mastodon rate for Fediverse instances is about 1:2. Two out of three Fediverse server instances are not Mastodon.

For monthly active users, it's about 7:3. Around 70% of active Fediverse users are on Mastodon. Admittedly, this is skewed somewhat because there are no stats that count actual users on Hubzilla and (streams) who make use of nomadic identity and/or multiple channels on the same accounts.

But for many Mastodon accounts and entire Mastodon instances, the rate for active Fediverse users known may pretty well be about 100:1. You can take all users from Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, Calckey, Firefish, Iceshrimp, Sharkey, CherryPick, Catodon, Mitra, GoToSocial, micro.blog, Socialhome, Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams), Lemmy, /kbin, Mbin, PieFed, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Owncast, Funkwhale etc., you can put them all together, and you can still have a hundred times more Mastodon users.

In fact, I'm quite convinced that there are lots of Mastodon accounts that follow hundreds of other accounts, but they're all only Mastodon accounts which, in turn, only follow Mastodon accounts themselves. Some people have spent all the time from October 30th, 2022 to today quite active on Mastodon, but without noticing anything from outside of Mastodon.

@Martin Holland

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2024-12-18 10:02:59

Andrea Bontempi

andreabont@m.posterdati.it

@mho @Flipboard #bluesky is not in the #fediverse, you must use a bridge to connect the networks.

2024-12-18 22:00:22

Dennix

dennix@twoot.site

@mho Thanks for sharing this :). I'm curious, what happens if you add RSS or the email-newsletters?