Within the first hour of threads going live, about a dozen of those im following on ig have joined (and began posting). When it's fully federated, could this be the entry level platform the fediverse needs to push it into average use? I have a slight feeling it’ll be a BeReal type scenario where people use it for a few months and then move on, but id be stoked to be able to have my friends and family see my posts on mastodon/lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Three hours since official launch and top personalities have already amassed 100K+ followers. Not sure what the official headcount is on Mastodon these days but those counts already surpass the total number of users on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Harder to find current and useful numbers than I expected.

According to https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount,

13,213,947 accounts

According to https://me.pcmag.com/en/social-media-1/17992/mastodon-sees-another-surge-in-active-users-following-twitters-rate-limiting,

2,055,502 active users monthly (3,797,695 active users half-year)