Monthly Active Users:
| Software | Current | Yesterday | Last week | Last Month | 3 Months Ago | 6 Months Ago | 1 Year Ago |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piefed | 4633 | 4583 | 2791 | 1950 | 1580 | 1666 | 260 |
| Lemmy | 36366 | 36362 | 36320 | 35127 | 36310 | 40133 | 24182 |
| Mbin | 783 | 790 | 770 | 712 | 721 | 906 | 860 |
| Threadiverse | 41782 | 41735 | 39881 | 37789 | 38611 | 42705 | 25302 |
| Mastodon | 757276 | 756319 | 743028 | 699858 | 679852 | 690496 | 877236 |
| Pixelfed | 103265 | 100584 | 118480 | 93330 | 84698 | 96797 | 304563 |
| Peertube | 29721 | 29660 | 29094 | 27264 | 27320 | 23452 | 34627 |
| Loops | 7342 | 7252 | 5578 | 2426 | 1074 | 26939 | 26110 |
| Bookwyrm | 1557 | 1549 | 3761 | 3405 | 3047 | 3020 | 7005 |
| Friendica | 1537 | 1534 | 1482 | 1359 | 1428 | 1732 | 2547 |
| Forgejo | 508 | 512 | 504 | 490 | 650 | 327 | 644 |
| Funkwhale | 241 | 246 | 259 | 221 | 284 | 248 | 483 |
| Flohmarkt | 39 | 38 | 35 | 29 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 943268 | 939429 | 942102 | 866171 | 836971 | 885716 | 1278517 |
Difference:
| Software | -1 Day | -1 Week | -1 Month | -3 Month | -6 Month | -1 Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piefed | 50 | 1842 | 2683 | 3053 | 2967 | 4373 |
| Lemmy | 4 | 46 | 1239 | 56 | -3767 | 12184 |
| Mbin | -7 | 13 | 71 | 62 | -123 | -77 |
| Threadiverse | 47 | 1901 | 3993 | 3171 | -923 | 16480 |
| Mastodon | 957 | 14248 | 57418 | 77424 | 66780 | -119960 |
| Pixelfed | 2681 | -15215 | 9935 | 18567 | 6468 | -201298 |
| Peertube | 61 | 627 | 2457 | 2401 | 6269 | -4906 |
| Loops | 90 | 1764 | 4916 | 6268 | -19597 | -18768 |
| Bookwyrm | 8 | -2204 | -1848 | -1490 | -1463 | -5448 |
| Friendica | 3 | 55 | 178 | 109 | -195 | -1010 |
| Forgejo | -4 | 4 | 18 | -142 | 181 | -136 |
| Funkwhale | -5 | -18 | 20 | -43 | -7 | -242 |
| Flohmarkt | 1 | 4 | 10 | 32 | 39 | 39 |
| Total | 3839 | 1166 | 77097 | 106297 | 57552 | -335249 |
Change (%):
| Software | -1 Day | -1 Week | -1 Month | -3 Month | -6 Month | -1 Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piefed | 1.1% | 66.0% | 137.6% | 193.2% | 178.1% | 1681.9% |
| Lemmy | 0.0% | 0.1% | 3.5% | 0.2% | -9.4% | 50.4% |
| Mbin | -0.9% | 1.7% | 10.0% | 8.6% | -13.6% | -9.0% |
| Threadiverse | 0.1% | 4.8% | 10.6% | 8.2% | -2.2% | 65.1% |
| Mastodon | 0.1% | 1.9% | 8.2% | 11.4% | 9.7% | -13.7% |
| Pixelfed | 2.7% | -12.8% | 10.6% | 21.9% | 6.7% | -66.1% |
| Peertube | 0.2% | 2.2% | 9.0% | 8.8% | 26.7% | -14.2% |
| Loops | 1.2% | 31.6% | 202.6% | 583.6% | -72.7% | -71.9% |
| Bookwyrm | 0.5% | -58.6% | -54.3% | 48.9% | -48.4% | -77.8% |
| Friendica | 0.2% | 3.7% | 13.1% | 7.6% | -11.3% | -39.7% |
| Forgejo | -0.8% | 0.8% | 3.7% | -21.8% | 55.4% | -21.1% |
| Funkwhale | -2.0% | -6.9% | 9.0% | -15.1% | -2.8% | -50.1% |
| Flohmarkt | 2.6% | 11.4% | 34.5% | 457.1% | - | - |
| Total | 0.4% | 0.1% | 8.9% | 12.7% | 6.5% | -26.2% |
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Note: Threadiverse is Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin. Fediverse only accounts for listed software [12], not the other [117] software tracked by the website. Added 3 more since last week (Forgejo, Funkwhale, Flohmarkt) and added links to all the software.
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Source: Fediverse-Observer Click on the icons on the right of the screen to see the data in graph form.
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Caveats: Only using 1 source, using two different sets of data within the same source (why 6 month and 1 year data seems off compared to the others, I didn’t dig through the code to figure out why that would be).
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Other Notes: Did write a script to that could interact with Fediverse-Observer, unfortunately I ran into a bug in the API. Contacted the developer, they were nice and patched the bug the same day. However, the patch hasn’t made it to the main branch yet (should happen the next week or two). Also, looked into the Piefed API, looks relatively easy to interact with, so hopefully this post should be more automated next time (it’s not fun entering all the values manually).
Congratulations to Piefed and Loops for significant growth (>100%) over the last 2 weeks.
Not sure what happened to Bookwyrm last week (20260202), but they lost ~60% of their users on 1 day (lost contact with a server or server shutdown?).
Mods: Again, feel free to delete if its not appropriate in the community.
80k growth total in a month, almost 10% growth. Wow.
You’re welcome
Haha. Yeah, the fediverse seems to have been doing quite well in the last month.
I didn’t notice how much Mastodon was growing. I don’t really follow microblogging stuff, what’s going on there?
There’s a new initiative since January in Germany trying to get people off big tech platforms and software. The Digital Independence Day happens on every 1st sunday of the month. They are supported by a lot of organizations and there are more than 200 offline events planned where volunteers help people installing alternatives etc.
A lot of it focuses on leaving Windows for Linux, but there’s also instructions on how to leave X for Mastodon. I noticed a lot of new people announcing their arrival under the hashtag #neuhier (new here) on Mastodon.
The “Forkiverse” (theforkiverse.com) is a new mastodon instance that a tech(?) podcast setup and it’s been growing pretty quickly (~10k users in 1 month). Not sure of anything else going on though.
Edit: Podcast is called “Hard Fork”. Added link.
oh nice, and the admin contact email is
@nytimes.comhttps://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork
https://maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkiverse-experiment-and-why-instance-choice-matters/
The Forkiverse is a deliberate experiment by the Search Engine and Hard Fork podcasts.
Not sure what happened to Bookwyrm last week (20260202), but they lost ~60% of their users on 1 day (lost contact with a server or server shutdown?).
It looks like something changed with the tracking or some error happened. The graphs show a very sudden drop.
Based on the server chart, there was a server lost that day (81 -> 80).
Whether that was a tracking change or an error, perhaps someone with more familiarity with Bookwyrm would know.
I’m only a bookwyrm user and have never looked at the stats prior to today, but there has to be something wrong with reporting stats. The instance I’m using apparently has 18k users but only 29 MAU. There’s a very weird drop of MAU visible in the stats that happened last year.
Yeah, that is weird. I guess we’d have to dig into the code to see how or why that happened.
