Post B4b5xmYdksHHuNy2m8 by Rairii@labyrinth.zone
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 (DIR) Post #B4b5xm2NgoTQIKsHUe by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
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       For those who don't think the user base is dwindling, a few years ago Mastodon was celebrating about 2m monthly active users.  Nowadays it's 0.7m.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4b5xmE4zJpascLcjA by agowa338@chaos.social
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       @GossiTheDog I think this is mainly because a lot of users are quitting social media entirely. This is not isolated to just mastodon from what I can tell.Like I lost contact to a lot of online acquaintances so far because they deleted ALL of their social media and went entirely offline.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4b5xmP4KScbQhUOrA by GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
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       @agowa338 I don't think that's the case, Threads has hundreds of millions of active users for example - TikTok etc pulling record numbers too.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4b5xmYdksHHuNy2m8 by Rairii@labyrinth.zone
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       @GossiTheDog @agowa338 assuming they're not using every trick in the book to make their MAUs look as large as possible
       
 (DIR) Post #B4bFcZmR47L1jwwm1I by Gargron@mastodon.social
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       @GossiTheDog The 2M was a short spike partially caused by a software bug counting accounts before the e-mail was confirmed alongside massive media coverage. Should not be used as a benchmark. It was 250K prior to that.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4bHES2qNDdohwFJGC by j@janerationx.social
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       @Gargron @GossiTheDog  Also, Mastodon has always been a niche platform, and it's now returning to baseline (slightly above, actually) after the Muskpocalypse spike. It's doing just fine.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4bJaQpflI3FE6h5pA by stux@mstdn.social
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       @GossiTheDog I’ve also seen it happen :sad_cat: