- cross-posted to:
- fediverse
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- fediverse
- technology@beehaw.org
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.
It grew in popularity in Japan as a more cultural-inclusive Twitter alternative/internet experience. So it really blew up there.