Number of active users of Mastodon continues to decline

The number of active users of decentralized social medium Mastodon fell again last month. After a peak at the end of November, the number of active users had already fallen, and there are now 1.4 million active users on the platform.

This means that the number of active users is still approximately four times higher than before the major peak last autumn, figures show which are listed under Network Health on JoinMastodon.org and where, among other things Wired pays attention. This means that some of the incoming users appear to remain, although some also appear to have left the platform.

Presumably many people tried Mastodon in the first few weeks after Elon Musk became CEO following the Twitter acquisition. Mastodon was then considered an alternative to Twitter, because it works with posts just like that commercial network. Mastodon’s design is different, with thousands of different servers worldwide. The number of servers is still growing and is now around 9800. It works with ActivityPub, an open source framework for social media.