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[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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![Screenshot of fedidb.org may 23rd, 2024](/assets/2024/fedidb-may2024-screenshot.png)

     

       
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* ~1M MAU, hard to compare directly to DAU

     

       
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* 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"

     

       
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* Does not currently seem to include [[Threads]], or maybe that just shows up under "Other" since it's per user opt-in

     

       
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* [Jazco Stats](https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats) - clear and simple, charts for daily likers / posters / followers, goes back to May 2023

     

       
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![Screenshot of Jazco daily posters](/assets/2024/daily-bsky-posters-jazco.png)

     

       
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* 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

     

       
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In contrast to [[Open Social Protocols]], I'll define Social Platforms as those that are proprietary systems run by one company. These systems all "compete" with each other, in the sense that people can only spend so much time looking at so many different apps and networks.

     

       
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For Open Social Protocols, I tend to _exclude_ chat only systems. Posts are available on the web, publicly linkable / browse-able, and the core activity is in public. This means they can be widely shared, embedded, covered in the media, and so on. The original definition of "social" media. At the same time, just "microblogging that mostly is a Twitter clone" is less helpful -- Instagram has a gigantic user base, and fits a lot of this criteria, and definitely isn't microblogging.

     

       
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link: https://threads.net

     

       
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Facebook/Meta's microblogging platform. Has [[ActivityPub]] compatibility, individual users can opt-in to have their accounts federate.
     

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