Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)

jersan@lemmy.whynotdrs.org to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 1381 points –

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/494473

Compared against the predominant incumbent social media platforms, the fediverse is very small.

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The Fediverse is by design affected by inflated numbers. If one user uses three different services, the user is counted three times. However, for the Fediverse it doesn't really matter - that number of total users is just as irrelevant like the total number of used email addresses.