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The Federation or Fediverse Stopped Growing

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 16, 2024

From The Federation: (latest)

Fediverse/Federation 6-months average

The 6-months "active" chart shows only small (minuscule but not negligible) growth.

Compare to 1-month averages:

Fediverse/Federation 1-month average

And the total number of nodes:

Federation nodes

After some initial exodus (mostly departures from Twitter) it's hard to see any substantial growth in the network. Some participants recently ranted about stagnation. It's not a substitute for real communication tools.

In X/Twitter it's even worse.

"Slowly beginning to not like microblogging..." -Jacky Alciné a few days ago

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