cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/fedilytics/p/1539968/growth-of-the-fediverse-20260531

Takeaways:

• All-Time MAU Peak (in last 7 Days): Peertube, Writefreely, Vernissage

• Positive Daily Growth (last 6/7 Days): Bookwyrm

• Weekly Growth (5-10%, >500 MAU): Pixelfed, Writefreely, Bookwyrm

• Looks like Bookwyrm, and Lemmy have found their bottoms and are stabilizing.

• Piefed is still bleeding, but possibly slower. Looks like most of the MAU losses are from Piefed.social (see other instance post for more details).

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	4184	4185	4272	4759	6179	1632	384	6179
Lemmy	35138	35102	35266	36217	40418	35313	47488	72618
Mbin	750	752	762	731	808	739	869	3967
Threadiverse	40072	40039	40300	41707	47405	37684	48741
Mastodon	743224	743073	746155	738994	787641	676783	751600	2737163
NodeBB	61301	61320	62738	70019	55025	38520	63298	76801
Pixelfed	102092	102053	94457	99622	119519	77178	109637	338813
Peertube	50878	50979	50151	43587	41181	26691	29459	51366
Writefreely	17554	17484	16606	6202	9628	1027	9332	17607
Loops	4180	4171	4150	3989	8088	1969	27894	29821
Bookwyrm	1108	1098	1034	2277	1563	2805	2968	9429
NeoDB	1748	1746	1748	1816	1868	1730	1755	2025
Friendica	2516	2519	2544	2414	2632	1297	1859	4734
Forgejo	95	101	110	112	114	386	289	1168
Catodon	125	124	123	119	0	0	0	128
Funkwhale	235	231	244	247	267	218	212	1114
Vernissage	163	163	165	153	98	59	95	166
Flohmarkt	22	20	19	30	21	3	0	40
Fediverse	1025313	1025121	1020544	1011288	1075050	866350	1047139

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	-88	-575	-1995	2552	3800	-1995
Lemmy	36	-128	-1079	-5280	-175	-12350	-37480
Mbin	-2	-12	19	-58	11	-119	-3217
Threadiverse	33	-228	-1635	-7333	2388	-8669
Mastodon	151	-2931	4230	-44417	66441	-8376	-1993939
NodeBB	-19	-1437	-8718	6276	22781	-1997	-15500
Pixelfed	39	7635	2470	-17427	24914	-7545	-236721
Peertube	-101	727	7291	9697	24187	21419	-488
Writefreely	70	948	11352	7926	16527	8222	-53
Loops	9	30	191	-3908	2211	-23714	-25641
Bookwyrm	10	74	-1169	-455	-1697	-1860	-8321
NeoDB	2	0	-68	-120	18	-7	-277
Friendica	-3	-28	102	-116	1219	657	-2218
Forgejo	-6	-15	-17	-19	-291	-194	-1073
Catodon	1	2	6	0	0	0	-3
Funkwhale	4	-9	-12	-32	17	23	-879
Vernissage	0	-2	10	65	104	68	-3
Flohmarkt	2	3	-8	1	19	0	-18
Fediverse	192	4769	14025	-49737	158963	-21826

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%	-2.1%	-12.1%	-32.3%	156.4%	989.6%	-32.3%
Lemmy	0.1%	-0.4%	-3.0%	-13.1%	-0.5%	-26.0%	-51.6%
Mbin	-0.3%	-1.6%	2.6%	-7.2%	1.5%	-13.7%	-81.1%
Threadiverse	0.1%	-0.6%	-3.9%	-15.5%	6.3%	-17.8%
Mastodon	0.0%	-0.4%	0.6%	-5.6%	9.8%	-1.1%	-72.8%
NodeBB	-0.0%	-2.3%	-12.5%	11.4%	59.1%	-3.2%	-20.2%
Pixelfed	0.0%	8.1%	2.5%	-14.6%	32.3%	-6.9%	-69.9%
Peertube	-0.2%	1.4%	16.7%	23.5%	90.6%	72.7%	-1.0%
Writefreely	0.4%	5.7%	183.0%	82.3%	1609.3%	88.1%	-0.3%
Loops	0.2%	0.7%	4.8%	-48.3%	112.3%	-85.0%	-86.0%
Bookwyrm	0.9%	7.2%	-51.3%	-29.1%	-60.5%	-62.7%	-88.2%
NeoDB	0.1%	0.0%	-3.7%	-6.4%	1.0%	-0.4%	-13.7%
Friendica	-0.1%	-1.1%	4.2%	-4.4%	94.0%	35.3%	-46.9%
Forgejo	-5.9%	-13.6%	-15.2%	-16.7%	-75.4%	-67.1%	-91.9%
Catodon	0.8%	1.6%	5.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	-2.3%
Funkwhale	1.7%	-3.7%	-4.9%	-12.0%	7.8%	10.8%	-78.9%
Vernissage	0.0%	-1.2%	6.5%	66.3%	176.3%	71.6%	-1.8%
Flohmarkt	10.0%	15.8%	-26.7%	4.8%	633.3%	0.0%	-45.0%
Fediverse	0.0%	0.5%	1.4%	-4.6%	18.3%	-2.1%

Tracker Comparison^[1,2]^:

Software	Fediverse-Observer^[1]^	FediDB ^[2]^
Piefed	4184	4741
Lemmy	35138	42933
Mbin	750	1299
Threadiverse	40072	48973
Mastodon	743224	989321
NodeBB	61301	5840
Pixelfed	102092	106627
Peertube	50878	47433
Writefreely	17554	9037
Loops	4180	4250
Bookwyrm	1108	3419
NeoDB	1748	1769
Friendica	2516	3272
Forgejo	95	1652
Catodon	125	0
Funkwhale	235	744
Vernissage	163	172
Flohmarkt	22	0
Fediverse	1025313	1222509

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

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).