Software	Current	Yesterday	Last week	Last Month	3 Months Ago	6 Months Ago	1 Year Ago
Piefed	4633	4583	2791	1950	1580	1666	260
Lemmy	36366	36362	36320	35127	36310	40133	24182
Mbin	783	790	770	712	721	906	860
Threadiverse	41782	41735	39881	37789	38611	42705	25302

Mastodon	757276	756319	743028	699858	679852	690496	877236
Pixelfed	103265	100584	118480	93330	84698	96797	304563
Peertube	29721	29660	29094	27264	27320	23452	34627
Loops	7342	7252	5578	2426	1074	26939	26110
Bookwyrm	1557	1549	3761	3405	3047	3020	7005
Friendica	1537	1534	1482	1359	1428	1732	2547
Forgejo	508	512	504	490	650	327	644
Funkwhale	241	246	259	221	284	248	483
Flohmarkt	39	38	35	29	7	0	0

Total	943268	939429	942102	866171	836971	885716	1278517

Difference:

Software	-1 Day	-1 Week	-1 Month	-3 Month	-6 Month	-1 Year
Piefed	50	1842	2683	3053	2967	4373
Lemmy	4	46	1239	56	-3767	12184
Mbin	-7	13	71	62	-123	-77
Threadiverse	47	1901	3993	3171	-923	16480

Mastodon	957	14248	57418	77424	66780	-119960
Pixelfed	2681	-15215	9935	18567	6468	-201298
Peertube	61	627	2457	2401	6269	-4906
Loops	90	1764	4916	6268	-19597	-18768
Bookwyrm	8	-2204	-1848	-1490	-1463	-5448
Friendica	3	55	178	109	-195	-1010
Forgejo	-4	4	18	-142	181	-136
Funkwhale	-5	-18	20	-43	-7	-242
Flohmarkt	1	4	10	32	39	39

Total	3839	1166	77097	106297	57552	-335249

Change (%):

Software	-1 Day	-1 Week	-1 Month	-3 Month	-6 Month	-1 Year
Piefed	1.1%	66.0%	137.6%	193.2%	178.1%	1681.9%
Lemmy	0.0%	0.1%	3.5%	0.2%	-9.4%	50.4%
Mbin	-0.9%	1.7%	10.0%	8.6%	-13.6%	-9.0%
Threadiverse	0.1%	4.8%	10.6%	8.2%	-2.2%	65.1%

Mastodon	0.1%	1.9%	8.2%	11.4%	9.7%	-13.7%
Pixelfed	2.7%	-12.8%	10.6%	21.9%	6.7%	-66.1%
Peertube	0.2%	2.2%	9.0%	8.8%	26.7%	-14.2%
Loops	1.2%	31.6%	202.6%	583.6%	-72.7%	-71.9%
Bookwyrm	0.5%	-58.6%	-54.3%	48.9%	-48.4%	-77.8%
Friendica	0.2%	3.7%	13.1%	7.6%	-11.3%	-39.7%
Forgejo	-0.8%	0.8%	3.7%	-21.8%	55.4%	-21.1%
Funkwhale	-2.0%	-6.9%	9.0%	-15.1%	-2.8%	-50.1%
Flohmarkt	2.6%	11.4%	34.5%	457.1%	-	-

Total	0.4%	0.1%	8.9%	12.7%	6.5%	-26.2%

Note: Threadiverse is Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin. Fediverse only accounts for listed software [12], not the other [117] software tracked by the website. Added 3 more since last week (Forgejo, Funkwhale, Flohmarkt) and added links to all the software.
Source: Fediverse-Observer Click on the icons on the right of the screen to see the data in graph form.
Caveats: Only using 1 source, using two different sets of data within the same source (why 6 month and 1 year data seems off compared to the others, I didn't dig through the code to figure out why that would be).
Other Notes: Did write a script to that could interact with Fediverse-Observer, unfortunately I ran into a bug in the API. Contacted the developer, they were nice and patched the bug the same day. However, the patch hasn’t made it to the main branch yet (should happen the next week or two). Also, looked into the Piefed API, looks relatively easy to interact with, so hopefully this post should be more automated next time (it's not fun entering all the values manually).

Congratulations to Piefed and Loops for significant growth (>100%) over the last 2 weeks.

Not sure what happened to Bookwyrm last week (20260202), but they lost ~60% of their users on 1 day (lost contact with a server or server shutdown?).

Mods: Again, feel free to delete if its not appropriate in the community.

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[–] squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 3 points 6 days ago

There's a new initiative since January in Germany trying to get people off big tech platforms and software. The Digital Independence Day happens on every 1st sunday of the month. They are supported by a lot of organizations and there are more than 200 offline events planned where volunteers help people installing alternatives etc.

A lot of it focuses on leaving Windows for Linux, but there's also instructions on how to leave X for Mastodon. I noticed a lot of new people announcing their arrival under the hashtag #neuhier (new here) on Mastodon.