MAU Peak (in last 7 Days):

  • Snac (4675, All-Time Peak)
  • Catodon (198, All-Time Peak)

Positive Daily Growth (6+ of last 7 Days):

  • Catodon (6/7)

Weekly Growth (>3%, >500 MAU):

  • NodeBB (+3.9%)
  • Pixelfed (+17.0%)
  • Friendica (+40.9%)

Note: Data is from 3 separate data sources and spliced together with 5-point calibration curves. Expect oddities.

Remarks:

  • After a >2 week hiatus, this post is back! Let me know if you see any issues.
  • I do see the -127.1% Forgejo value. Calibration curves for parallel datasets aren’t used, if they don’t have to be, for a reason. I’m considering implementing currently I’ve implemented solutions.
  • I did just delete the last week of data for NodeBB and Vernissage (annoying capitalization bug, now fixed). My backup was a week old, so have to do some work to rebuild that data. So, that’ll probably be my next item to tackle :(
  • Since Fediverse-Observers graphs are no more, I was thinking of building out graphs for these posts. Alternatively, I can spend the time trying to build out a different analysis (instance on-boarding effects). Let me know if you have a preference.

Monthly Active Users[1]:

Software Current Yesterday[1D] Last Week[7D] Last Month[30D] 3 Months Ago[90D] 6 Months Ago[180D] 1 Year Ago[365D] All-Time Maximum
Piefed+Pylova 6728 6720 6652 6874 7522 4785 1654 7540
Lemmy 37464 37461 38004 33771 37679 37999 38192 73393
Mbin 834 865 890 929 1087 766 762 3980
Threadiverse 45026 45046 45546 41574 46288 43550 40608
Mastodon 748138 716802 755887 730985 699542 622941 589008 2736180
NodeBB 40324 40344 38998 39475 52749 56908 31079 66653
Pixelfed 336541 330430 274123 492189 137605 116319 109688 538854
Peertube 80747 81192 82438 88676 67062 60785 30171 95948
Loops 4030 3985 3946 3803 4123 4069 177 29956
Snac 3958 4017 4661 4634 4388 3565 3349 4675
Bookwyrm 7373 4310 4240 7838 2226 3594 4597 13680
NeoDB 1837 1823 1842 1749 1753 1804 1730 2027
Friendica 3109 3281 3220 3221 2589 2538 1616 4926
Forgejo 726 761 816 641 503 489 2437 3484
Catodon 205 192 148 117 98 116 0 205
Funkwhale 441 446 454 275 353 558 631 1126
Vernissage 234 227 259 278 238 155 94 309
Flohmarkt 16 16 12 12 24 21 9 42
Fediverse 1272705 1232872 1216590 1415467 1019541 917412 815194

Difference[1]:

Software -1 Day[1D] -1 Week[7D] -1 Month[30D] -3 Months[90D] -6 Months[180D] -1 Year[365D] -All-Time Maximum
Piefed+Pylova 8 76 -146 -794 1943 5074 -812
Lemmy 3 -540 3693 -215 -535 -728 -35929
Mbin -31 -56 -95 -253 68 72 -3146
Threadiverse -20 -520 3452 -1262 1476 4418
Mastodon 31336 -7749 17153 48596 125197 159130 -1988042
NodeBB -20 1326 849 -12425 -16584 9245 -26329
Pixelfed 6111 62418 -155648 198936 220222 226853 -202313
Peertube -445 -1691 -7929 13685 19962 50576 -15201
Loops 45 84 227 -93 -39 3853 -25926
Snac -59 -703 -676 -430 393 609 -717
Bookwyrm 3063 3133 -465 5147 3779 2776 -6307
NeoDB 14 -5 88 84 33 107 -190
Friendica -172 -111 -112 520 571 1493 -1817
Forgejo -35 -90 85 223 237 -1711 -2758
Catodon 13 57 88 107 89 0 0
Funkwhale -5 -13 166 88 -117 -190 -685
Vernissage 7 -25 -44 -4 79 140 -75
Flohmarkt 0 4 4 -8 -5 7 -26
Fediverse 39833 56115 -142762 253164 355293 457511

Change (%)[1]:

Software -1 Day[1D] -1 Week[7D] -1 Month[30D] -3 Months[90D] -6 Months[180D] -1 Year[365D] -All-Time Maximum
Piefed+Pylova 0.1% 1.1% -2.1% -10.6% 40.6% 306.8% -10.8%
Lemmy 0.0% -1.4% 10.9% -0.6% -1.4% -1.9% -49.0%
Mbin -3.6% -6.3% -10.2% -23.3% 8.9% 9.4% -79.0%
Threadiverse -0.0% -1.1% 8.3% -2.7% 3.4% 10.9%
Mastodon 4.4% -1.0% 2.3% 6.9% 20.1% 27.0% -72.7%
NodeBB -0.0% 3.4% 2.2% -23.6% -29.1% 29.7% -39.5%
Pixelfed 1.8% 22.8% -31.6% 144.6% 189.3% 206.8% -37.5%
Peertube -0.5% -2.1% -8.9% 20.4% 32.8% 167.6% -15.8%
Loops 1.1% 2.1% 6.0% -2.3% -1.0% 2176.8% -86.5%
Snac -1.5% -15.1% -14.6% -9.8% 11.0% 18.2% -15.3%
Bookwyrm 71.1% 73.9% -5.9% 231.2% 105.1% 60.4% -46.1%
NeoDB 0.8% -0.3% 5.0% 4.8% 1.8% 6.2% -9.4%
Friendica -5.2% -3.4% -3.5% 20.1% 22.5% 92.4% -36.9%
Forgejo -4.6% -11.0% 13.3% 44.3% 48.5% -70.2% -79.2%
Catodon 6.8% 38.5% 75.2% 109.2% 76.7% 0.0% 0.0%
Funkwhale -1.1% -2.9% 60.4% 24.9% -21.0% -30.1% -60.8%
Vernissage 3.1% -9.7% -15.8% -1.7% 51.0% 148.9% -24.3%
Flohmarkt 0.0% 33.3% 33.3% -33.3% -23.8% 77.8% -61.9%
Fediverse 3.2% 4.6% -10.1% 24.8% 38.7% 56.1%

Tracker Comparison[1,2]:

Software FediList[1] FediDB [2]
Piefed+Pylova 6728 6683
Lemmy 37464 31164
Mbin 834 611
Threadiverse 45026 38458
Mastodon 748138 672954
NodeBB 40324 18272
Pixelfed 336541 284012
Peertube 80747 36734
Loops 4030 3984
Snac 3958 58
Bookwyrm 7373 1820
NeoDB 1837 1810
Friendica 3109 2665
Forgejo 726 33
Catodon 205 198
Funkwhale 441 84
Vernissage 234 228
Flohmarkt 16 0
Fediverse 1272705 1061310
  • Source: [1] Fedilist with calibrated Fedindex covering 20261017 to 20261011 and calibrated Fediverse-Observer (dead) covering 20261010 to 20221130, [2] FediDB, Analysis Code

Notes:

  1. Threadiverse is Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin. Fediverse only accounts for listed software [17], not the other [~555] activitypub enabled software.
  2. Daily Fedilist data gathering began 20261018. Data before 20261018 is calibrated to Fedilist data via 5-point calibration curves (not ideal). FediDB only provides a current snapshot (snapshot within the last 15 minutes, no time series data).
  3. FediDB seems to use unclear math to get there counts and overestimate the MAU on most software (see previous post, if interested in learning more).

Edit: Partly done altering the calibrations to be more accurate. Going to add another step that should help smooth out the calibrations more. Added and crossed out some wording.

Edit 2: Added a decay to the calibration curve. Should help reduce the oddities while still allowing for the calibration to smooth the transition between datasets.

Edit 3: Fixed missing data for NodeBB and Vernissage. Won’t be updating this week’s post with the data (code isn’t set up to specify a start date, so rerunning it has the data and analysis for today rather than 2 days ago.