• mbryson
    7·
    1 year ago

    Mastodon numbers are crazy when compared to the rest of the software on that list. Makes me wonder just how many are active users and/or how many search “Mastodon” after Musk bought twitter, made an account on mastodon.social and left it.

    • liwott@nerdica.net
      7·
      1 year ago

      Makes me wonder just how many are active users

      MAU means “monthly active users”. As you can see, the ratio MAU/users is not higher for Mastodon than it is for Lemmy.

      • mtdyson@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        For me, Mastodon was not very user friendly. I still jump on it every now and then but I’m still not comfortable with it yet.

      • bunjix@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Uhh am I missing something? Linked page says Mastodon has 1 million mau, while for lemmy it says just below 40 000 mau?

        • Valmond@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          They were talking about MAU Vs Users, which is similar (mastodon has like x 40 in each)

      • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
        21·
        1 year ago

        On the other hand, until the Reddit exodus settles down after the July 1 massive wave, it is not sensible to evaluate Mastodon vs Lemmy MAU numbers.

      • Valmond@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        Or like me, tried 3 different ones before finding a fourth that worked.

        I’m not a Twitter person pes se but it was the only (that I knew about, sadly) decentralized thing on the web that could replace reddit.

        • Liempong_pagong@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          I tried Twitter long long ago. I did not enjoy it. I tried Mastodon. And strangely I understand it better than I understand Twitter.

          Weird I know. And I can’t explain it.