Takeaways:

  • All-Time MAU Peak (in last 7 Days): Peertube
  • Funkwhale 2.0 doesn’t appear to be having a significant impact boosting their MAU
  • Loops continues to decline (4.8k MAU), now less than 2x their pre-January boost numbers (2.6k MAU)
  • Piefed may be stabilizing at ~2.5x (5.3k MAU) their pre-January boost numbers (2.1k MAU)
  • Middling negative week for the threadiverse
  • Middling positive week overall for the Fediverse (bolstered by Mastodon and Peertube)

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 5285 5284 5796 5931 1937 1791 352 6179
Lemmy 36803 36817 37098 39104 34989 37490 54994 72618
Mbin 740 740 756 823 704 819 879 3967
Threadiverse 42828 42841 43650 45858 37630 40100 56225
Mastodon 761307 723429 757827 791555 684378 697388 875239 2737163
Pixelfed 106671 106552 106764 114921 69962 114027 139474 338813
Peertube 45477 45513 43799 41296 27589 24608 35279 45513
Loops 4769 4854 5701 8658 2206 26575 0 29821
Bookwyrm 1706 1695 1733 1619 2908 2919 8747 9429
Friendica 2502 2509 2469 2660 1296 1691 3454 4734
Forgejo 131 133 115 122 539 390 489 1168
Funkwhale 290 290 302 270 191 238 429 1114
Flohmarkt 26 23 20 24 18 0 0 40
Fediverse 965707 927839 962380 1006983 826717 907936 1119336

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 1 -511 -646 3348 3494 4933 -894
Lemmy -14 -295 -2301 1814 -687 -18191 -35815
Mbin 0 -16 -83 36 -79 -139 -3227
Threadiverse -13 -822 -3030 5198 2728 -13397
Mastodon 37878 3480 -30248 76929 63919 -113932 -1975856
Pixelfed 119 -93 -8250 36709 -7356 -32803 -232142
Peertube -36 1678 4181 17888 20869 10198 -36
Loops -85 -932 -3889 2563 -21806 0 -25052
Bookwyrm 11 -27 87 -1202 -1213 -7041 -7723
Friendica -7 33 -158 1206 811 -952 -2232
Forgejo -2 16 9 -408 -259 -358 -1037
Funkwhale 0 -12 20 99 52 -139 -824
Flohmarkt 3 6 2 8 0 0 -14
Fediverse 37868 3327 -41276 138990 57771 -153629

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 0.0% -8.8% -10.9% 172.8% 195.1% 1401.4% -14.5%
Lemmy -0.0% -0.8% -5.9% 5.2% -1.8% -33.1% -49.3%
Mbin 0.0% -2.1% -10.1% 5.1% -9.6% -15.8% -81.3%
Threadiverse -0.0% -1.9% -6.6% 13.8% 6.8% -23.8%
Mastodon 5.2% 0.5% -3.8% 11.2% 9.2% -13.0% -72.2%
Pixelfed 0.1% -0.1% -7.2% 52.5% -6.5% -23.5% -68.5%
Peertube -0.1% 3.8% 10.1% 64.8% 84.8% 28.9% -0.1%
Loops -1.8% -16.3% -44.9% 116.2% -82.1% 0.0% -84.0%
Bookwyrm 0.6% -1.6% 5.4% -41.3% -41.6% -80.5% -81.9%
Friendica -0.3% 1.3% -5.9% 93.1% 48.0% -27.6% -47.1%
Forgejo -1.5% 13.9% 7.4% -75.7% -66.4% -73.2% -88.8%
Funkwhale 0.0% -4.0% 7.4% 51.8% 21.8% -32.4% -74.0%
Flohmarkt 13.0% 30.0% 8.3% 44.4% 0.0% 0.0% -35.0%
Fediverse 4.1% 0.3% -4.1% 16.8% 6.4% -13.7%

Tracker Comparison[1,2]:

Software Fediverse-Observer[1] FediDB [2]
Piefed 5285 5591
Lemmy 36803 47763
Mbin 740 1349
Threadiverse 42828 54703
Mastodon 761307 1002327
Pixelfed 106671 111005
Peertube 45477 41263
Loops 4769 4844
Bookwyrm 1706 3922
Friendica 2502 3244
Forgejo 131 1414
Funkwhale 290 757
Fediverse 965707 1223479

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 only tracks some of the software [67].
  3. FediDB seems to use unclear math to get there counts and overestimate the MAU on most software (see previous post, if interested in learning more).

Edit:

  1. In previous posts I said there was a 3 week gap in the Loops data about a year ago. Looks like I was confuseding data from a following variable as continuation of the previous Loops data. Apologizes for any confusion. Loops data starts 20250522.
  2. Added a comment about potential Piefed stabilization.
  • Vicinus@piefed.zipOPEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    I’ve heard in the past that Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin devs talk to each other about how to implement features.

    So, I’m hopefully it’s interoperable, but have no real information to go on that it will/would be.

    Did a quick search through Piefed’s code repository. I don’t see community migration, but they are working on instance migration (Lemmy instance could become a Piefed instance).

    Edit: Looks like community migration could already be a thing and been a thing for potentially 6 months. Huh.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Interesting.

      instance migration (Lemmy instance could become a Piefed instance)

      So 2 possibilities: a Lemmy community could migrate to a Piefed server, or a Lemmy server could become a Piefed server.

      Makes sense that both should be possible. As I understand it, both fit the forum paradigm (or whatever the term is) of ActivityPub.

      What’s important to me (and I’d argue for the fediverse too) is that we limit the amount of fragmentation and splintering and forking and egos in all this.

      • Vicinus@piefed.zipOPEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        Yeah, I think ego management is probably going to be important too.

        I recall a wave of users trying to create tension/issues between Piefed and Lemmy a couple months ago. They were heavily down voted. So, it fizzled out to my knowledge, but I might have just blocked them and moved on.

        Hopefully users remain resistant to those kinds of agitations.

        Assuming community migration is currently a thing, I wonder if not wanting to start issues between software or instances is part of the reason it hasn’t been widely publicized.