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Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?

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https://piefed.zip/u/Blaze posted on Mar 9, 2026 08:00
https://piefed.zip/c/fedigrow/p/1206406/weekly-thread-how-is-everyone-doing-with-their-communities

8 posts in conversation

$$10055
https://piefed.social/u/Sergio posted on Mar 10, 2026 12:02
In reply to: https://piefed.social/comment/10463718

Yeah but the glass-half-full take is that on !sumo@lemmy.world now we do have more interaction than before.

https://piefed.social/comment/10468559
$$10058
https://piefed.social/u/JohnnyEnzyme posted on Mar 10, 2026 12:15
In reply to: https://piefed.social/comment/10468559

That’s what I understood from your earlier comment. Good on you for helping to get that rolling, mate.

Somewhat similarly maybe, I’ve been trying to revive !outofcontextcomics@lemmy.world lately, and someone else started posting with aplomb, the past couple days. :D

https://piefed.social/comment/10468696

Growth of the Fediverse (20260308)

$$8862
https://piefed.zip/u/Vicinus posted on Mar 8, 2026 15:24

Monthly Active Users^[1]^:
| Software | Current | Yesterday[1D] | Last Week[7D] | Last Month[30D] | 3 Months Ago[90D] | 6 Months Ago[180D] | 1 Year Ago[365D] | All-Time Maximum |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 4926 | 4938 | 6179 | 4349 | 1734 | 1694 | 295 | 6179 |
| Lemmy | 39050 | 37623 | 40418 | 36329 | 35173 | 36999 | 48185 | 72618 |
| Mbin | 793 | 789 | 808 | 785 | 736 | 868 | 905 | 3967 |
| Threadiverse | 44769 | 43350 | 47405 | 41463 | 37643 | 39561 | 49385 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | 777825 | 778944 | 787641 | 756526 | 674907 | 696076 | 907994 | 2737163 |
| Pixelfed | 128333 | 128549 | 119519 | 103299 | 85244 | 122796 | 189311 | 338813 |
| Peertube | 41062 | 41425 | 41181 | 29638 | 26938 | 27088 | 36735 | 41545 |
| Loops | 6476 | 6639 | 8088 | 7176 | 1988 | 27437 | 0 | 29821 |
| Bookwyrm | 1541 | 1560 | 1563 | 1546 | 2811 | 2982 | 7672 | 9429 |
| Friendica | 2531 | 2619 | 2632 | 1526 | 1296 | 1733 | 4056 | 4734 |
| Forgejo | 110 | 112 | 114 | 511 | 399 | 406 | 613 | 1168 |
| Funkwhale | 300 | 298 | 267 | 248 | 207 | 230 | 478 | 1114 |
| Flohmarkt | 38 | 34 | 21 | 39 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | 1002985 | 1003530 | 1008431 | 941972 | 831438 | 918309 | 1196244 | |

Difference^[1]^:
| Software | -1 Day[1D] | -1 Week[7D] | -1 Month[30D] | -3 Months[90D] | -6 Months[180D] | -1 Year[365D] | -All-Time Maximum |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | -12 | -1253 | 577 | 3192 | 3232 | 4631 | -1253 |
| Lemmy | 1427 | -1368 | 2721 | 3877 | 2051 | -9135 | -33568 |
| Mbin | 4 | -15 | 8 | 57 | -75 | -112 | -3174 |
| Threadiverse | 1419 | -2636 | 3306 | 7126 | 5208 | -4616 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | -1119 | -9816 | 21299 | 102918 | 81749 | -130169 | -1959338 |
| Pixelfed | -216 | 8814 | 25034 | 43089 | 5537 | -60978 | -210480 |
| Peertube | -363 | -119 | 11424 | 14124 | 13974 | 4327 | -483 |
| Loops | -163 | -1612 | -700 | 4488 | -20961 | 0 | -23345 |
| Bookwyrm | -19 | -22 | -5 | -1270 | -1441 | -6131 | -7888 |
| Friendica | -88 | -101 | 1005 | 1235 | 798 | -1525 | -2203 |
| Forgejo | -2 | -4 | -401 | -289 | -296 | -503 | -1058 |
| Funkwhale | 2 | 33 | 52 | 93 | 70 | -178 | -814 |
| Flohmarkt | 4 | 17 | -1 | 33 | 0 | 0 | -2 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | -545 | -5446 | 61013 | 171547 | 84676 | -193259 | |

Change (%)^[1]^:
| Software | -1 Day[1D] | -1 Week[7D] | -1 Month[30D] | -3 Months[90D] | -6 Months[180D] | -1 Year[365D] | -All-Time Maximum |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | -0.2% | -20.3% | 13.3% | 184.1% | 190.8% | 1569.8% | -20.3% |
| Lemmy | 3.8% | -3.4% | 7.5% | 11.0% | 5.5% | -19.0% | -46.2% |
| Mbin | 0.5% | -1.9% | 1.0% | 7.7% | -8.6% | -12.4% | -80.0% |
| Threadiverse | 3.3% | -5.6% | 8.0% | 18.9% | 13.2% | -9.3% | |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | -0.1% | -1.2% | 2.8% | 15.2% | 11.7% | -14.3% | -71.6% |
| Pixelfed | -0.2% | 7.4% | 24.2% | 50.5% | 4.5% | -32.2% | -62.1% |
| Peertube | -0.9% | -0.3% | 38.5% | 52.4% | 51.6% | 11.8% | -1.2% |
| Loops | -2.5% | -19.9% | -9.8% | 225.8% | -76.4% | 0.0% | -78.3% |
| Bookwyrm | -1.2% | -1.4% | -0.3% | -45.2% | -48.3% | -79.9% | -83.7% |
| Friendica | -3.4% | -3.8% | 65.9% | 95.3% | 46.0% | -37.6% | -46.5% |
| Forgejo | -1.8% | -3.5% | -78.5% | -72.4% | -72.9% | -82.1% | -90.6% |
| Funkwhale | 0.7% | 12.4% | 21.0% | 44.9% | 30.4% | -37.2% | -73.1% |
| Flohmarkt | 11.8% | 81.0% | -2.6% | 660.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | -5.0% |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | -0.1% | -0.5% | 6.5% | 20.6% | 9.2% | -16.2% | |

Tracker Comparison^[1,2]^:
| Software | Fediverse-Observer^[1]^ | FediDB ^[2]^ |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 4926 | 5035 |
| Lemmy | 39050 | 48646 |
| Mbin | 793 | 1418 |
| Threadiverse | 44769 | 55099 |
| | | |
| Mastodon | 777825 | 1021625 |
| Pixelfed | 128333 | 132802 |
| Peertube | 41062 | 38352 |
| Loops | 6476 | 6523 |
| Bookwyrm | 1541 | 3824 |
| Friendica | 2531 | 3187 |
| Forgejo | 110 | 1416 |
| Funkwhale | 300 | 755 |
| | | |
| Fediverse | 1002985 | 1263583 |

Notes:

  1. Threadiverse is Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin. Fediverse only accounts for listed software [12], not the other [117] software tracked by Fediverse-Observer.
  2. Fediverse-Observer provides daily MAU back to 20221130. FediDB only provides a current snapshot (snapshot within the last 15 minutes, no time series data) and doesn’t track all software.
  3. FediDB seems to use unclear math to get there counts and overestimate the MAU on most software (see previous week’s post, if interested in learning more).
  4. Weirdly Loops has a ~3 week gap in data about a year ago.

Takeaways:

  • Lemmy appears to still be jumping around with servers coming in and out.
  • Loops still in a downward trend, but looks to be shallow-ing out. Hopefully stabilize by next week’s post.
  • Piefed possibly stabilized. Looks like ~3000 users joined in the last wave (~1 month ago) of those ~2000 stayed. Alt. up to all of them stayed, but ~1000 moved servers once after arriving.
  • Pixelfed had some good growth this week.
https://piefed.zip/c/fedigrow/p/1202532/growth-of-the-fediverse-20260308

Conversation

$$6866
https://lemmy.wtf/u/PapaSkwat posted on Mar 4, 2026 00:42
In reply to: https://piefed.social/comment/9899893

Not liking it when a user substitutes “th” with another letter, making it annoying to read?

That reminds me… whatever happened to the guy here on lemmy that did that? Did he finally stop doing it? I can’t remember his username, but man it was annoying to read.

https://lemmy.wtf/comment/20252272

How to Leave Big Tech (Lemmy mentioned)

$$6605
https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic posted on Mar 3, 2026 11:39
https://lemmy.ml/post/43963364

Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?

$$6124
https://piefed.zip/u/Blaze posted on Mar 2, 2026 08:00
https://piefed.zip/c/fedigrow/p/1169984/weekly-thread-how-is-everyone-doing-with-their-communities

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$$6398
https://sh.itjust.works/u/threelonmusketeers posted on Mar 2, 2026 22:11
In reply to: https://piefed.zip/comment/4044514

Business as usual on

  • !space@mander.xyz
  • !spaceflight@sh.itjust.works
  • !nasa@lemmy.world
  • !esa@feddit.nl
  • !spacex@sh.itjust.works
  • !rocketlab@lemmy.nz
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/24068179
$$6424
https://piefed.zip/u/Blaze posted on Mar 2, 2026 23:19
In reply to: https://piefed.social/comment/10358146

It is really nice indeed

https://piefed.zip/comment/4054360

Growth of the Fediverse (20260301)

$$5676
https://piefed.zip/u/Vicinus posted on Mar 1, 2026 14:00

Monthly Active Users^[1]^:
| Software | Current | Yesterday[1D] | Last Week[6D] | Last Month[30D] | 3 Months Ago[90D] | 6 Months Ago[180D] | 1 Year Ago[365D] | All-Time Maximum |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 6179 | 6173 | 5556 | 2322 | 1632 | 1648 | 304 | 6179 |
| Lemmy | 40418 | 41389 | 39183 | 36132 | 35313 | 40214 | 48182 | 72618 |
| Mbin | 808 | 822 | 825 | 773 | 739 | 880 | 914 | 3967 |
| Threadiverse | 47405 | 48384 | 45564 | 39227 | 37684 | 42742 | 49400 | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | 787641 | 788844 | 798673 | 740922 | 676783 | 684859 | 913427 | 2737163 |
| Pixelfed | 119519 | 120239 | 115309 | 120485 | 77178 | 111147 | 234134 | 338813 |
| Peertube | 41181 | 41348 | 40855 | 28695 | 26691 | 23287 | 35082 | 41348 |
| Loops | 8088 | 8316 | 8110 | 4423 | 1969 | 29174 | 0 | 29821 |
| Bookwyrm | 1563 | 1606 | 1609 | 3817 | 2805 | 2962 | 7524 | 9429 |
| Friendica | 2632 | 2618 | 2637 | 1460 | 1297 | 1743 | 4395 | 4734 |
| Forgejo | 114 | 121 | 124 | 510 | 386 | 370 | 615 | 1168 |
| Funkwhale | 267 | 266 | 270 | 258 | 218 | 227 | 480 | 1114 |
| Flohmarkt | 21 | 18 | 33 | 33 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | 1008431 | 1011760 | 1013184 | 939830 | 825014 | 896511 | 1245057 | |

Difference^[1]^:
| Software | -1 Day[1D] | -1 Week[6D] | -1 Month[30D] | -3 Months[90D] | -6 Months[180D] | -1 Year[365D] | -All-Time Maximum |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 6 | 623 | 3857 | 4547 | 4531 | 5875 | 0 |
| Lemmy | -971 | 1235 | 4286 | 5105 | 204 | -7764 | -32200 |
| Mbin | -14 | -17 | 35 | 69 | -72 | -106 | -3159 |
| Threadiverse | -979 | 1841 | 8178 | 9721 | 4663 | -1995 | |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | -1203 | -11032 | 46719 | 110858 | 102782 | -125786 | -1949522 |
| Pixelfed | -720 | 4210 | -966 | 42341 | 8372 | -114615 | -219294 |
| Peertube | -167 | 326 | 12486 | 14490 | 17894 | 6099 | -167 |
| Loops | -228 | -22 | 3665 | 6119 | -21086 | 0 | -21733 |
| Bookwyrm | -43 | -46 | -2254 | -1242 | -1399 | -5961 | -7866 |
| Friendica | 14 | -5 | 1172 | 1335 | 889 | -1763 | -2102 |
| Forgejo | -7 | -10 | -396 | -272 | -256 | -501 | -1054 |
| Funkwhale | 1 | -3 | 9 | 49 | 40 | -213 | -847 |
| Flohmarkt | 3 | -12 | -12 | 18 | 0 | 0 | -19 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | -3329 | -4753 | 68601 | 183417 | 111920 | -236626 | |

Change (%)^[1]^:
| Software | -1 Day[1D] | -1 Week[6D] | -1 Month[30D] | -3 Months[90D] | -6 Months[180D] | -1 Year[365D] | -All-Time Maximum |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 0.1% | 11.2% | 166.1% | 278.6% | 274.9% | 1932.6% | 0.0% |
| Lemmy | -2.3% | 3.2% | 11.9% | 14.5% | 0.5% | -16.1% | -44.3% |
| Mbin | -1.7% | -2.1% | 4.5% | 9.3% | -8.2% | -11.6% | -79.6% |
| Threadiverse | -2.0% | 4.0% | 20.8% | 25.8% | 10.9% | -4.0% | |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | -0.2% | -1.4% | 6.3% | 16.4% | 15.0% | -13.8% | -71.2% |
| Pixelfed | -0.6% | 3.7% | -0.8% | 54.9% | 7.5% | -49.0% | -64.7% |
| Peertube | -0.4% | 0.8% | 43.5% | 54.3% | 76.8% | 17.4% | -0.4% |
| Loops | -2.7% | -0.3% | 82.9% | 310.8% | -72.3% | 0.0% | -72.9% |
| Bookwyrm | -2.7% | -2.9% | -59.1% | -44.3% | -47.2% | -79.2% | -83.4% |
| Friendica | 0.5% | -0.2% | 80.3% | 102.9% | 51.0% | -40.1% | -44.4% |
| Forgejo | -5.8% | -8.1% | -77.6% | -70.5% | -69.2% | -81.5% | -90.2% |
| Funkwhale | 0.4% | -1.1% | 3.5% | 22.5% | 17.6% | -44.4% | -76.0% |
| Flohmarkt | 16.7% | -36.4% | -36.4% | 600.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | -47.5% |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | -0.3% | -0.5% | 7.3% | 22.2% | 12.5% | -19.0% | |

Tracker Comparison^[1,2]^:
| Software | Fediverse-Observer^[1]^ | FediDB ^[2]^ |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 6179 | 6196 |
| Lemmy | 40418 | 49143 |
| Mbin | 808 | 1418 |
| Threadiverse | 47405 | 56757 |
| | | |
| Mastodon | 787641 | 1026747 |
| Pixelfed | 119519 | 129301 |
| Peertube | 41181 | 38969 |
| Loops | 8088 | 7997 |
| Bookwyrm | 1563 | 3818 |
| Friendica | 2632 | 3293 |
| Forgejo | 114 | 1421 |
| Funkwhale | 267 | 761 |
| | | |
| Fediverse | 1008431 | 1269064 |

Notes:

  1. Threadiverse is Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin. Fediverse only accounts for listed software [12], not the other [117] software tracked by Fediverse-Observer.
  2. Fediverse-Observer provides daily MAU back to 20221130. FediDB only provides a current snapshot (snapshot within the last 15 minutes, no time series data) and doesn’t track all software.
  3. Not sure why the two sources have different counts. A quick search of Lemmy showed they found all the same large servers (1 FediDB duplicate found: lemmygrad.ml & lemmygrad.com, 679 & 651 MAU), but got significantly different total MAU counts somehow? Fediverse-Observer MAU appears correct (at least with regards to Lemmy).
  4. “Last Week” is actually [6D]ays ago not the usual [7D]ays because there was a server detection/duplication issue that happened [7D]ays ago and was corrected [6D]ays ago.
  5. Weirdly Loops has a ~3 week gap in data about a year ago.

Takeaways:

  • Positive Growth (every day last week): Piefed
  • Lemmy’s data has up and down in the last week. May be due to the NSFW server shutting down, then coming back as an archive, and then shutting down again?
  • Loops may have reached its local peak and people are starting to leave again :(
  • Seems like a middling, slightly negative week for the Fediverse.
https://piefed.zip/c/fedigrow/p/1165910/growth-of-the-fediverse-20260301

4 posts in conversation

$$6021
https://piefed.social/u/Skavau posted on Mar 2, 2026 02:47
In reply to: https://scrapetacular.ydns.eu/activities/1a03a7b6-7f09-47ff-9c8c-21c3c2fb42ab

Piefed

https://piefed.social/comment/10351225
$$6028
https://scrapetacular.ydns.eu/u/admin posted on Mar 2, 2026 03:09
In reply to: https://piefed.social/comment/10351225

Thanks, I guess measuring the other way only makes sense in the community based threadiverse.

https://scrapetacular.ydns.eu/activities/a8c1ca8e-c7b5-4fe2-b65b-43ea2bb26c22

Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?

$$2944
https://piefed.zip/u/Blaze posted on Feb 23, 2026 08:00
https://piefed.zip/c/fedigrow/p/1127778/weekly-thread-how-is-everyone-doing-with-their-communities

5 posts in conversation

$$3373
https://piefed.zip/u/Blaze posted on Feb 23, 2026 23:30
In reply to: https://lemmy.world/comment/22299509

Nice for !fluxer_app@lemmy.world !

https://piefed.zip/comment/3936468
$$3432
https://piefed.keyboardvagabond.com/u/ragingHungryPanda posted on Feb 24, 2026 01:12
In reply to: https://piefed.zip/c/fedigrow/p/1127778/weekly-thread-how-is-everyone-doing-with-their-communities

I had someone contribute a lot of Katie to !map_share@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com, which was cool.

as for !blogs_and_blogging@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com, it’s still mostly just me, but it’s fun to do

https://piefed.keyboardvagabond.com/comment/2228120

Growth of the Fediverse (20260222)

$$2486
https://piefed.zip/u/Vicinus posted on Feb 22, 2026 10:33

Monthly Active Users:
| Software | Current | Yesterday | Last Week | Last Month | 3 Months Ago | 6 Months Ago | 1 Year Ago |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 5460 | 4923 | 4738 | 2041 | 1595 | 1666 | 260 |
| Lemmy | 40727 | 36996 | 36510 | 35385 | 35571 | 40133 | 47182 |
| Mbin | 822 | 811 | 795 | 749 | 753 | 906 | 860 |
| Threadiverse | 47009 | 42730 | 42043 | 38175 | 37919 | 42705 | 48302 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | 1136727 | 741297 | 749916 | 729258 | 672733 | 690496 | 877236 |
| Pixelfed | 115634 | 100508 | 103924 | 114965 | 82325 | 96797 | 304563 |
| Peertube | 41313 | 28211 | 29431 | 27906 | 26560 | 23452 | 34627 |
| Loops | 8006 | 7961 | 7706 | 2613 | 1840 | 26939 | 26110 |
| Bookwyrm | 1616 | 1338 | 1460 | 3759 | 2846 | 3020 | 7005 |
| Friendica | 2627 | 1593 | 1578 | 1411 | 1353 | 1732 | 4279 |
| Forgejo | 121 | 86 | 501 | 507 | 419 | 327 | 644 |
| Funkwhale | 269 | 225 | 233 | 266 | 199 | 248 | 483 |
| Flohmarkt | 30 | 27 | 37 | 28 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | 1353352 | 923976 | 936829 | 918888 | 826201 | 885716 | 1303249 |

Difference:
| Software | -1 Day | -1 Week | -1 Month | -3 Months | -6 Months | -1 Year |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 537 | 722 | 3419 | 3865 | 3794 | 5200 |
| Lemmy | 3731 | 4217 | 5342 | 5156 | 594 | -6455 |
| Mbin | 11 | 27 | 73 | 69 | -84 | -38 |
| Threadiverse | 4279 | 4966 | 8834 | 9090 | 4304 | -1293 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | 395430 | 386811 | 407469 | 463994 | 446231 | 259491 |
| Pixelfed | 15126 | 11710 | 669 | 33309 | 18837 | -188929 |
| Peertube | 13102 | 11882 | 13407 | 14753 | 17861 | 6686 |
| Loops | 45 | 300 | 5393 | 6166 | -18933 | -18104 |
| Bookwyrm | 278 | 156 | -2143 | -1230 | -1404 | -5389 |
| Friendica | 1034 | 1049 | 1216 | 1274 | 895 | -1652 |
| Forgejo | 35 | -380 | -386 | -298 | -206 | -523 |
| Funkwhale | 44 | 36 | 3 | 70 | 21 | -214 |
| Flohmarkt | 3 | -7 | 4 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | 429373 | 416530 | 434462 | 527128 | 467606 | 50073 |

Change (%):
| Software | -1 Day | -1 Week | -1 Month | -3 Months | -6 Months | -1 Year |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 10.9% | 15.2% | 167.5% | 242.3% | 227.7% | 2000.0% |
| Lemmy | 10.1% | 11.6% | 15.1% | 14.5% | 1.5% | -13.7% |
| Mbin | 1.4% | 3.4% | 9.7% | 9.2% | -9.3% | -4.4% |
| Threadiverse | 22.3% | 30.2% | 192.4% | 266.0% | 219.9% | 1981.9% |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | 53.3% | 51.6% | 55.9% | 69.0% | 64.6% | 29.6% |
| Pixelfed | 15.0% | 11.3% | 0.6% | 40.5% | 19.5% | -62.0% |
| Peertube | 46.4% | 40.4% | 48.0% | 55.5% | 76.2% | 19.3% |
| Loops | 0.6% | 3.9% | 206.4% | 335.1% | -70.3% | -69.3% |
| Bookwyrm | 20.8% | 10.7% | -57.0% | -43.2% | -46.5% | -76.9% |
| Friendica | 64.9% | 66.5% | 86.2% | 94.2% | 51.7% | -38.6% |
| Forgejo | 40.7% | -75.8% | -76.1% | -71.1% | -63.0% | -81.2% |
| Funkwhale | 19.6% | 15.5% | 1.1% | 35.2% | 8.5% | -44.3% |
| Flohmarkt | 11.1% | -18.9% | 15.4% | 500% | % | % |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | 46.5% | 44.5% | 47.2% | 63.8% | 52.8% | 6.5% |

  • 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 and 1 year data seems off compared to the others, 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 for reaching All-Time highs (>40,000 MAU)
  • Forgejo lost a server in the last week that had ~80% of its users (20260217)

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

https://piefed.zip/c/fedigrow/p/1122722/growth-of-the-fediverse-20260222

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$$2812
https://slrpnk.net/u/hanrahan posted on Feb 23, 2026 00:28
In reply to: https://slrpnk.net/comment/20875983

Mastodon is for following people, Lemmy etal are for being involved in and with like minded things.

https://slrpnk.net/comment/20882934
$$2910
https://piefed.zip/u/Vicinus posted on Feb 23, 2026 06:03
In reply to: https://piefed.social/comment/10249167

Thanks for finding that and pointed it out.

I looked through the lists of servers for most of the listed software and found a couple more examples. I wasn’t able to find duplicates in some of the software, and the few I did find, wouldn’t account for the entire update induced MAU increase:

  • Mastodon (625k of 395k)
  • Lemmy (4.5k of 3.7k)
  • Pixelfed (5k of 15k)
  • Peertube (4k of 13k)

Either way, I’ll reach out to the Fediverse-Observer dev and let him know of the issue.

https://piefed.zip/comment/3923228

Growth of the Fediverse (20260215)

$$2480
https://piefed.zip/u/Vicinus posted on Feb 15, 2026 16:02

Monthly Active Users:
| Software | Current | Yesterday | Last Week | Last Month | 3 Months Ago | 6 Months Ago | 1 Year Ago |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 4738 | 4737 | 4633 | 1977 | 1578 | 1666 | 260 |
| Lemmy | 36510 | 36525 | 36366 | 35367 | 36136 | 40133 | 42973 |
| Mbin | 795 | 796 | 783 | 727 | 731 | 906 | 719 |
| Threadiverse | 42043 | 42058 | 41782 | 38071 | 38445 | 42705 | 43952 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | 749916 | 750937 | 757276 | 713523 | 677436 | 690496 | 877236 |
| Pixelfed | 103924 | 103880 | 103265 | 106389 | 82600 | 96797 | 304563 |
| Peertube | 29431 | 29676 | 29721 | 27044 | 26676 | 23452 | 34627 |
| Loops | 7706 | 7666 | 7342 | 2526 | 1411 | 26939 | 26110 |
| Bookwyrm | 1460 | 1465 | 1557 | 3573 | 2939 | 3020 | 7005 |
| Friendica | 1578 | 1567 | 1537 | 1373 | 1375 | 1732 | 4279 |
| Forgejo | 501 | 507 | 508 | 516 | 467 | 327 | 644 |
| Funkwhale | 233 | 238 | 241 | 255 | 289 | 248 | 483 |
| Flohmarkt | 37 | 35 | 39 | 29 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | 936829 | 938029 | 943268 | 893299 | 831650 | 885716 | 1298899 |

Difference:
| Software | -1 Day | -1 Week | -1 Month | -3 Months | -6 Months | -1 Year |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 1 | 105 | 2761 | 3160 | 3072 | 4478 |
| Lemmy | -15 | 144 | 1143 | 374 | -3623 | -6463 |
| Mbin | -1 | 12 | 68 | 64 | -111 | 76 |
| Threadiverse | -15 | 261 | 3972 | 3598 | -662 | -1909 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | -1021 | -7360 | 36393 | 72480 | 59420 | -127320 |
| Pixelfed | 44 | -2465 | 21324 | 21324 | 7127 | -200639 |
| Peertube | -245 | -290 | 2387 | 2755 | 5979 | -5196 |
| Loops | 40 | 364 | 5180 | 6295 | -19233 | -18404 |
| Bookwyrm | -5 | -97 | -2113 | -1479 | -1560 | -5545 |
| Friendica | 11 | 41 | 205 | 203 | -154 | -2701 |
| Forgejo | -6 | -7 | -15 | 34 | 174 | -143 |
| Funkwhale | -5 | -8 | -22 | -56 | -15 | -250 |
| Flohmarkt | 2 | -2 | 8 | 25 | 37 | 37 |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | -1200 | -6439 | 43530 | 105179 | 51113 | -362070 |

Change (%):
| Software | -1 Day | -1 Week | -1 Month | -3 Months | -6 Months | -1 Year |
| :——– | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: | ——-: |
| Piefed | 0.0% | 2.3% | 139.7% | 200.3% | 184.4% | 1722.3% |
| Lemmy | -0.0% | 0.4% | 3.2% | 1.0% | -9.0% | -15.0% |
| Mbin | -0.1% | 1.5% | 9.4% | 8.8% | -12.3% | 10.6% |
| Threadiverse | -0.0% | 0.6% | 10.4% | 9.4% | -1.6% | -4.3% |
| | | | | | | | |
| Mastodon | -0.1% | -1.0% | 5.1% | 10.7% | 8.6% | -14.5% |
| Pixelfed | 0.0% | -2.3% | 25.8% | 25.8% | 7.4% | -65.9% |
| Peertube | -0.8% | -1.0% | 8.8% | 10.3% | 25.5% | -15.0% |
| Loops | 0.5% | 5.0% | 205.1% | 446.1% | -71.4% | -70.5% |
| Bookwyrm | -0.3% | -6.2% | -59.1% | -50.3% | -51.7% | -79.2% |
| Friendica | 0.7% | 2.7% | 14.9% | 14.8% | -8.9% | -63.1% |
| Forgejo | -1.2% | -1.4% | -2.9% | 7.3% | 53.2% | -22.2% |
| Funkwhale | -2.1% | -3.3% | -8.6% | -19.4% | -6.0% | -51.8% |
| Flohmarkt | 5.7% | -5.1% | 27.6% | 208.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| | | | | | | | |
| Fediverse | -0.1% | -0.7% | 4.9% | 12.6% | 5.8% | -27.9% |

  • 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 and 1 year data seems off compared to the others, I didn’t dig through the code to figure out why that would be).

Takeaways:

  • Threadiverse growth this week
  • Fediverse shrinks this week
  • Piefed and Loops had positive growth each day last week (Friendica almost did)

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

https://piefed.zip/c/fedigrow/p/1089231/growth-of-the-fediverse-20260215

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