this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2025
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The #Fediverse just broke 2M MAUs!

2,162,745 MAUs, to be exact!

And keep in mind, this does not count data from servers that have opted out of indexing, which accounts for another 2M accounts (which may or may not be active)!

https://fedidb.org/

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Do I understand correctly that a third of all servers went down in a single month? Is that a normal situation because of people self-hosting and losing interest again? Or should we be alarmed?

[–] breakfastmtn 11 points 3 days ago

FediDB stopped crawling for a while to add support for robots.txt. The server drop-off is probably mostly because many are opting out of being crawled.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Looking at the graph, it might be that it is inaccurate starting data combined with a slow decline