7,601,724 accounts
+2,635 in the last hour
+57,784 in the last day
+495,181 in the last week

There is no apparent end to the influx of users, and also thank-goodness of servers and communities.

I hear that Cohost and Hive and Tumblr are also still onboarding as fast as they can.

#Hive is just another overlord, a capital-owned data-broker. The capital-owned media are promoting it heavily as you'd expect. They terms seem to explicitly say they will sell you out.

#Cohost is at least owned by a charity, but that's still a single entity in control of the thing. Will they ever federate or interoperate? Who knows. It's not up to you. They hope to make money and give it to the highest value posters, and so rank everything by how important people are.

#Tumblr are owned by a weird distributed company, that are currently good guys as far as I can tell. Wordpress folks. They tell us they are thinking of federating and inter-operating as soon as they can, but are busy on-boarding right now.

#Mastodon / The-Fediverse is getting the freaks and the geeks and the queers and weirdos.

My people.

Where we lead, the masses end up following. Though I dunno if we should let them this time really.

Also Tumblr has a lot of weirdos too actually.

@mastodonusercount

@pre

Do #Post , too; it's getting lots hypes.

@mastodonusercount

@ceoln @mastodonusercount

I new there was another one I forgot.

I like that #postnews is quite similar to instances with names like #poast on Fedi which are pretty much all toxic and terrible shitposting instances.

"Post" is a terrible completely un-googleable name. Can you imaging searching for "social media, post" and getting anything sane?

They are owned by billionaries who intend to sell your eyeballs, and maybe share that with their top-posters as far as I can tell.

They are unlikely to federate, and seem to desire to lock you in so they can farm you like all the other people-farmers on the internet.