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A beginner's guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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"Mastodon was founded in 2016 by German software developer Eugen Rochko. Unlike Twitter, Facebook, Reddit or any other popular social media site, Mastodon is a nonprofit, meaning that, ideally, its goal is to benefit the public, rather than shareholders."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's hard to count and sources disagree slightly, but your intuition is right: Lemmy has some way to go before it reaches eight million users. Some people have multiple accounts and many are inactive, but it's still a solid number.

More than 400 000 Lemmy users is not shabby either though. Along with them comes 60 000 on kbin, which is where I'm tuning in from.