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<h2>Accounts On Decentralized Social Networks</h2>
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<details class="help" id="update-details">
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<summary class="important">🚨 Important Update: New Data Sources</summary>
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On January 13, 2026, I switched data sources for the decentralized social networks. This means
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that old numbers from this site should not be compared to more recent ones.
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Previously, Fediverse user numbers came from another site that was scraping Fediverse servers; now, I am
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running my own scraper. This gives me more flexibility to retain historical information and to deal
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with many of the quirks that individual Fediverse software has in reporting user numbers.
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Atmosphere numbers used to come from the Bluesky relay; <a href="https://github.com/ricci/distributed-social-networks/issues/2">it's complicated</a>, but
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what was getting reported was basically the number of users active since late 2023. Now, I'm
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listening to multiple relays and tracking account activity, allowing me to directly count monthly
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active users. This is more directly comparable to the way Fediverse users are counted.
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Overall, these changes do not make huge differences to the indices, which is a good thing: it means
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these measures are fairly stable under a variety of assumptions.
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<summary>What does this measure?</summary>