199,430 is the number of new users across different Mastodon servers since October 27, along with 437 new servers. This bring last day's total to 608,837 active users, which is without precedent the highest it's ever been for Mastodon and the fediverse.
@Gargron amazing! genuine question: how are you able to get these stats given the decentralised nature of mastodon? is there some centralised reporting across the whole fediverse to you?
@emax i believe i saw they have a bot scraping the stats from all the instances on instances.social, so it’s a lower bound.