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.

[–] estelle4565@masto.nu 1 points 1 year ago

@mbryson @maegul
According to the CEO of Mastodon last time I chatted with him, the software tracks log-ins, so people like me, who do not log out and in again, would be invisible. So I would say with a certain level of confidence that those are active users you are seeing. Unless he changed the code of course, but it did not seem to be high on his ToDo list.

[–] arinbasu1@social.arinbasu.online 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... and then went back to twitter, but did not deactivate their #Fediverse account.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 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.