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Mastodon Actually Has 407K+ More Monthly Users Than It Thought (techcrunch.com) 46

A network connectivity error caused Mastodon to severely undercount its users. According to founder and CEO Eugen Rochko, the decentralized social network actually has 407,814 more monthly active users than it had been reporting previously. "The adjustment also included a gain of 2.34 million registered users across an additional 727 servers that had not been counted due to the error," reports TechCrunch. From the report: The issue was impacting the metrics reported on Mastodon's statistics aggregator on its joinmastodon.org/servers page, which had been undercounting users between October 2 and October 8. This issue has now been resolved, Rochko said. That leaves Mastodon with a total of 1.8 million monthly active users at present, an increase of 5% month-over-month and 10,000 servers, up 12% -- a testament to Mastodon's current upward swing at a time when the nature of X continues to remain in flux.
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Mastodon Actually Has 407K+ More Monthly Users Than It Thought

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  • In flux? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by quonset ( 4839537 )

    when the nature of X continues to remain in flux.

    Is that the word we're using when the company is cash flow negative because ad revenue is down 50% year over year [reuters.com] and to try and scrounge every pfennig he can, Musk has said he will not pay content creators unless they have a premium account [businessinsider.com] (i.e. paid).

    Or did they mean having all basic functionality removed [forbes.com] on a whim?

    • by Anonymous Coward

      when the nature of X continues to remain in flux.

      Twitter got Fluxed by Elon Musk.

      • by mspohr ( 589790 )

        I think we're seeing the "Peter Principle" in action here.
        Musk is a brilliant scientist and engineer but is clueless about social media and is destroying X (neeTwitter).

        • Citation needed. He is not an engineer or a scientist. He's proven to be be a capable figure head for companies that have an engineering base. How much any real control he has on the details of any of his companies varies. He's green lit some great ideas that wouldn't have been with more fiscally conservative leadership, but also done some really dumb things. He's won more than he's lost, though. At X/twitter it seems like he's driving product rather than just green lighting domain expert ideas, combining w
    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Luckyo ( 1726890 )

      It's funny to watch all the haters repeat the same claims over and over again, in the exact same outlets as twitter just keeps getting better for the users that aren't the tiny clique of american journos used to special treatment on that platform and have screaming in agony for last half a year or so as they can no longer just silence people there by firing off an email to their favourite twitter insider.

      • Re:In flux? (Score:4, Insightful)

        by The Evil Atheist ( 2484676 ) on Monday October 09, 2023 @11:00PM (#63913891)
        You've only swapped one clique for another.

        But I guess that's hypocrisy for you. It's okay if it's my clique that gets special treatment.
        • by Luckyo ( 1726890 )

          I've long been in the "I want to see everyone else speak" clique. So I didn't swap one at all. But I do demand special treatment for my clique, in that I demand that all other cliques can speak.

          Current twitter activity between pro-Palestinian and Pro-Israeli activists for example has been an excellent primer on which side aligns more with my personal morals. I would have gotten a very different view if I followed curated, edited and widely censored narrative of mainstream instead.

          • You think that's the clique in charge at Twitter? Really? You're really that naive?
            • by Luckyo ( 1726890 )

              I didn't say they're in charge. I said that their demands have been met by current management. Those are not the same thing. One of the benefits of being in the "free speech" camp is that a lot of political movements in fact agree with you, so you don't have to be the one in power to get what you want.

              • I didn't say they're in charge. I said that their demands have been met by current management. Those are not the same thing.

                Wow. Keep twisting things to see what you want to see.

                • by Luckyo ( 1726890 )

                  Considering that EU's censor in chief agrees with me that there's too much free speech on that platform, as both pro-Hamas and pro-Israel accounts remained online, I'd say I'm far from alone in seeing reality.

      • “Hahaha suck it libs” he said as he shoved shards of broken glass into his rectum in a fit of pure ecstasy, “Twitter belongs to us now! You’ll see it’s finally going to be good!”

        8 years ago even if your politics happened to align with mine and you showed any enthusiasm for Twitter I took it as a huge red flag and probable sign of being a a complete moron.

      • There is no twitter (spoon)
        • by Luckyo ( 1726890 )

          It's now called x.com. And Musk single handedly reinvigorated interest in space exploration. And as his recent streams show, he's a gamer so he knows what XCOM means.

          What does he know that we don't?!

    • Or did they mean having all basic functionality removed on a whim?

      So I see why journalists will hate it, but that actually sounds like a good thing. Journalists these days love to dump rhetoric into the headlines to generate clicks for articles that are totally lacking in substance. I think the Internet could use a little less clickbait, and journalists will stop trying to use this one weird trick.

      Disclaimer: I don't use Twitter so I can't comment on its usefulness or whether this should even be considered "basic functionality" as you put it, but I tend to think the basic

      • Re: In flux? (Score:5, Insightful)

        by edwdig ( 47888 ) on Monday October 09, 2023 @11:50PM (#63913965)

        Are you seriously asking if the ability to share links counts as basic functionality on social media? It's one of the most core features people use on social media.

        • It’s a useful feature that’s abused so badly as to be a net loss for the internet. If you care about yourself you should probably avoid exposing your eyeballs to modern link aggregation garbage. Find yourself a few RSS feeds that aren’t trash and you can stay informed without ever needing to read headlines ending in question marks, find out what happens next, or see whatever left twitter speechless.

          If everyone started using RSS I’m sure the attention would have people finding ways

        • So you're telling me that they removed the ability to share links? Because it doesn't sound like it.

      • > I think the Internet could use a little less clickbait, and journalists will stop trying to use this one weird trick.

        Twitters removing head lines has zero effect on this.

        If it really bothered news agencies they would just put the text on the image. It also prevents twitter farming data on the nature of the clicks easily.

      • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

        It's like the way Slashdot defaults to putting the domain that links go to in square brackets. It's there to prevent abuse by giving the user a preview of what the link is, so they don't get sent to goatse again.

        Similarly on Twitter the headline is displayed to limit the amount of distortion that the poster can get away with. Posting links that most readers won't click is a popular way to lend credibility to lies. It actually used to be quite popular around here too. Many readers just assume that the link m

    • It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: X is dying

      One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered X community when IDC confirmed that X market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all social media. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that X has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. X is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the rece
  • So why bother to go about finding MORE users when it doesn't count for anything?
  • They're right, this is a testament to Mastadon. Not a testament that it's a competitive social media platform, but certainly a testament to something.
    • by Luckyo ( 1726890 )

      It's a testament to the fact that you can in fact use Mastodon as a sort of quasi-standalone personal closed social network. In that, Mastodon is quite good.

      Its public facing instances on the other hand are very meh. Though they did get improved after all the screaming terminally online twitter professionals (sometimes also known as journalists in the modern world) got collectively banned from it after they tried to behave there like they did on twitter.

      • I think that makes sense. To be fair, my snarkiness mostly comes from many months ago when mastodon was being hyped as a Twitter killer. I definitely see the niche potential. I could never imagine wanting to setup a closed social network myself, but itâ(TM)s a neat idea that I am sure appeals to some.
        • by Luckyo ( 1726890 )

          Out of three biggest Mastodon instances, last I checked a couple of months after twitter changing management two were MAP networks. The largest one of the three is the mainline one maintained by Mastodon developers. MAP is the current left wing academia code word for "minor attracted person", i.e. a pedophile. This is the crowd that had free reign on twitter under the old management, and got nearly totally removed from twitter under the new one, so they are among the main groups that actually had to migrate

          • Out of three biggest Mastodon instances, last I checked a couple of months after twitter changing management two were MAP networks.

            Try clearing your search history before looking for an instance and you might find a little more variety.

            • by Luckyo ( 1726890 )

              I would rather not go on another adventure of that kind. First time was more than enough to rob me of good night's sleep for a while.

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