Growth of the Fediverse (20260816)

Takeaways:

• All-Time MAU Peak (in last 7 Days): Vernissage(260)
• Positive Daily Growth (6+ of last 7 Days): Bookwyrm(6/7), Friendica(7/7)

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	6996	6977	7085	6261	4371	4761	1716	7275
Lemmy	35095	35131	35249	35096	35382	36125	41081	72618
Mbin	889	889	905	1078	748	791	924	3967
Threadiverse	42980	42997	43239	42435	40501	41677	43721
Mastodon	824675	824755	826163	838170	746813	748272	695498	2737163
NodeBB	54029	54677	52409	61564	63786	51518	33047	76801
Pixelfed	111928	111409	111690	87206	88574	101327	90808	338813
Peertube	44487	44261	43873	47406	47317	29201	25425	53333
Loops	4040	4029	4004	4274	4113	7773	26641	29821
Bookwyrm	1392	1381	1328	1177	1351	1441	2981	9429
NeoDB	1748	1744	1743	1758	1763	1842	1713	2025
Friendica	2715	2701	2595	2393	2482	1585	1780	4734
Forgejo	120	118	123	115	110	499	344	1168
Catodon	99	99	102	99	119	0	0	128
Funkwhale	136	137	143	163	242	232	284	1114
Vernissage	254	256	249	156	153	100	110	260
Flohmarkt	20	21	17	19	14	26	0	40
Fediverse	1088623	1088585	1087678	1086935	997338	985493	922352

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	19	-89	735	2625	2235	5280	-279
Lemmy	-36	-154	-1	-287	-1030	-5986	-37523
Mbin	0	-16	-189	141	98	-35	-3078
Threadiverse	-17	-259	545	2479	1303	-741
Mastodon	-80	-1488	-13495	77862	76403	129177	-1912488
NodeBB	-648	1620	-7535	-9757	2511	20982	-22772
Pixelfed	519	238	24722	23354	10601	21120	-226885
Peertube	226	614	-2919	-2830	15286	19062	-8846
Loops	11	36	-234	-73	-3733	-22601	-25781
Bookwyrm	11	64	215	41	-49	-1589	-8037
NeoDB	4	5	-10	-15	-94	35	-277
Friendica	14	120	322	233	1130	935	-2019
Forgejo	2	-3	5	10	-379	-224	-1048
Catodon	0	-3	0	-20	0	0	-29
Funkwhale	-1	-7	-27	-106	-96	-148	-978
Vernissage	-2	5	98	101	154	144	-6
Flohmarkt	-1	3	1	6	-6	0	-20
Fediverse	38	945	1688	91285	103130	166271

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	0.3%	-1.3%	11.7%	60.1%	46.9%	307.7%	-3.8%
Lemmy	-0.1%	-0.4%	-0.0%	-0.8%	-2.9%	-14.6%	-51.7%
Mbin	0.0%	-1.8%	-17.5%	18.9%	12.4%	-3.8%	-77.6%
Threadiverse	-0.0%	-0.6%	1.3%	6.1%	3.1%	-1.7%
Mastodon	-0.0%	-0.2%	-1.6%	10.4%	10.2%	18.6%	-69.9%
NodeBB	-1.2%	3.1%	-12.2%	-15.3%	4.9%	63.5%	-29.7%
Pixelfed	0.5%	0.2%	28.3%	26.4%	10.5%	23.3%	-67.0%
Peertube	0.5%	1.4%	-6.2%	-6.0%	52.3%	75.0%	-16.6%
Loops	0.3%	0.9%	-5.5%	-1.8%	-48.0%	-84.8%	-86.5%
Bookwyrm	0.8%	4.8%	18.3%	3.0%	-3.4%	-53.3%	-85.2%
NeoDB	0.2%	0.3%	-0.6%	-0.9%	-5.1%	2.0%	-13.7%
Friendica	0.5%	4.6%	13.5%	9.4%	71.3%	52.5%	-42.6%
Forgejo	1.7%	-2.4%	4.3%	9.1%	-76.0%	-65.1%	-89.7%
Catodon	0.0%	-2.9%	0.0%	-16.8%	0.0%	0.0%	-22.7%
Funkwhale	-0.7%	-4.9%	-16.6%	-43.8%	-41.4%	-52.1%	-87.8%
Vernissage	-0.8%	2.0%	62.8%	66.0%	154.0%	130.9%	-2.3%
Flohmarkt	-4.8%	17.6%	5.3%	42.9%	-23.1%	0.0%	-50.0%
Fediverse	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	9.2%	10.5%	18.0%

Tracker Comparison^[1,2]^:

Software	Fediverse-Observer^[1]^	FediDB ^[2]^
Piefed	6996	7420
Lemmy	35095	46914
Mbin	889	1303
Threadiverse	42980	55637
Mastodon	824675	963922
NodeBB	54029	13241
Pixelfed	111928	116079
Peertube	44487	41353
Loops	4040	4247
Bookwyrm	1392	3697
NeoDB	1748	1779
Friendica	2715	3413
Forgejo	120	1663
Catodon	99	0
Funkwhale	136	698
Vernissage	254	260
Flohmarkt	20	0
Fediverse	1088623	1205989

• Source: [1] Fediverse-Observer, [2] FediDB, Analysis Code

Notes:

1. Threadiverse is Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin. Fediverse only accounts for listed software [17], not the other [112] 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).