According to the @mastodonusercount bot, there are 8,993,096 accounts right now.
It may cross the 9 million boundary today. 🥳
@hvangalen You can safely remove like 1M as spam accounts in my experience. Still a lot though.
@trinsec I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it was more than 1M.
I'm sure spam - I mean """marketing""" - firms actively create thousands of accounts on any accessible social media network.
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@hvangalen Yup. But so far they're doing a shitty job of it. Create account, put spammy profile text in... and that's it. That's the majority of those silly spam accounts. Nobody would ever look at those, heh. But it sure fills up our usercount. :P
@trinsec Yep! *spawns another job of user account creator script* 🙃