Recent moves by Eugen Rochko (known as Gargron on fedi), the CEO of Mastodon-the-non-profit and lead developer of Mastodon-the-software, got some people worried about the outsized influence Mastodon (

Mastodon-the-software is used by far by the most people on fedi. The biggest instance, mastodon.social, is home to over 200.000 active accounts as of this writing. This is roughly 1/10th of the whole Fediverse, on a single instance. Worse, Mastodon-the-software is often identified as the whole social network, obscuring the fact that Fediverse is a much broader system comprised of a much more diverse software.

  • kjrOP
    2•11 months ago

    @Kierunkowy74 That interesting, especially that the most active fediverse instance is misskey.io – ok, interesting because I even didn’t know about its existence, only about the software.

    • Packopus
      4•11 months ago

      It grew in popularity in Japan as a more cultural-inclusive Twitter alternative/internet experience. So it really blew up there.