This is only Mastodon, not the other softwares. That's why you often see such differing numbers. There are just too many different softwares in the federation to accurately tally users.
People frequently have multiple accounts on different servers, so the account count is much larger than the number of individuals. Although this was of course true for Twitter as well, I had 3 different Twitter accounts. Which reminds me, I need to change my game accounts that use Twitter for account recovery over to something else before Twitter goes twits-up...
Every problem that people say Twitter has, Mastodon seems to have but worse.
From the cliques, to arbitrary bans, to servers shutting down (the server I considered joining asked that you autodelete old tweets to save space), to worse UX.
I can’t even think of a thing it does better than Twitter except for, I suppose, acting as a self hosted Twitter, whoever finds that useful.
It’s like Twitter with the politics of Reddit mods and subreddits.
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People frequently have multiple accounts on different servers, so the account count is much larger than the number of individuals. Although this was of course true for Twitter as well, I had 3 different Twitter accounts. Which reminds me, I need to change my game accounts that use Twitter for account recovery over to something else before Twitter goes twits-up...
From the cliques, to arbitrary bans, to servers shutting down (the server I considered joining asked that you autodelete old tweets to save space), to worse UX.
I can’t even think of a thing it does better than Twitter except for, I suppose, acting as a self hosted Twitter, whoever finds that useful.
It’s like Twitter with the politics of Reddit mods and subreddits.