Growth of the Fediverse (20260222)

Monthly Active Users:

Difference:

Change (%):

• Note: Threadiverse is Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin. Fediverse only accounts for listed software [12], not the other [117] software tracked by the website.
• Source: Fediverse-Observer
• Caveats: Only using 1 source, using two different sets of data within the same source (why 6 month[6M] and 1 year[12M] data seems off compared to the others[*D], I didn't dig through the code to figure out why that would be).

Takeaways:

• Big growth in the Fediverse this week (ex. Mastodon >50%, Lemmy and Piefed >10%). Looks like the Fediverse-Observer software updated yesterday and found(?) a bunch of previously unknown servers (10-50%). Due to the change, my API code now works and made this post far easier :)
• Piefed and Loops had positive growth each day last week
• Congrats to Piefed (>5000 MAU) and PeerTube (>40,000 MAU) for reaching All-Time highs
• Forgejo lost a server in the last week that had ~80% of its users (20260217)
• Fediverse bigger than it was a 12 months ago!

Mods: Again, feel free to delete if its not appropriate in the community.

1. Edit: Fixed Threadiverse Change (%)s. Known bug, will fix for next time (already fixed).
2. Edit: Added another takeaway. Changed the code to be more accurate and added the result (a couple numbers slightly changed)
3. Edit: Rimu of Piefed found a bug in the Fediverse-Observer server list (duplicates). I looked through and found a few more duplicates. The data for those 4 software (Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed and Peertube) have been adjusted to be accurate with the removed duplicates. Fediverse-Observer dev has been notified of the issue.
4. Note: Fediverse-Observer dev is now aware of the issue. The issue is caused by either server mis-configurations or bad actors trying to inflate numbers. The dev is working on a method to clean up or filter out the issue. I'll check next week for duplicates and adjust numbers accordingly if they are still there.