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4If we hope to see [[Open Social Protocols]] succeed -- that is, be available and widely adopted as open protocols that many people, apps, organizations, and more can use and interoperate between -- we need to track what the Daily Active Users (DAUs) look like.
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6Looking at some of [[Dan Romero]]'s comments around Farcaster, his goal is 10M DAU as having large global impact. That translates to somewhere in the range of 100M to 500M accounts.
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8Likely of use will be looking at [[Social Platform DAUs]] to compare and contrast.
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10## [[ActivityPub]]
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12[FediDB](https://fedidb.org/) is the main dashboard. It only tracks Monthly Active Users (MAU), which will be a much higher number than DAU. [Powered by a crawler](https://fedidb.org/crawler.html) that retrieves self-reported data from instance servers
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15### May 2024
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17* ~1M MAU, hard to compare directly to DAU
18* Not sure how active is calculated -- has had an active session at least once in the last month is what I _think_ it is, which would also be broader than "has posted at least once this month"
19* Does not currently seem to include [[Threads]], or maybe that just shows up under "Other" since it's per user opt-in
20* 72% Mastodon
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22## [[ATProtocol]]
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24A couple of independent dashboards:
25* [Jazco Stats](https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats) - clear and simple, charts for daily likers / posters / followers, goes back to May 2023
26* [edavis bskycharts](https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/index.html) - extensive charts you can drill into powered by Munin, started gathering ~February 2024
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29### May 2024
30* Daily Likers seems like it captures a slightly wider, but for a more direct apples-to-apples (Farcaster does casts, no idea how FediDB measures active), daily posters seems most relevant, so around ~150K to ~180K
31* edavis shows Daily/Weekly/Monthly active across all actions, not just posting, which looks to be around ~300K
32* edavis seems to show ~1.2M monthly active -- which would make it bigger than ActivityPub
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34## [[Farcaster]]
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36[Farcaster.network Dashboard](https://farcaster.network/)
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40### May 2024
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42* 357K users
43* 1K Hubs
44* Daily Active Casters, aka at least one cast per day posted, 45K - 50K