Dated snapshot
This is a Mastodon subset, not a count of every fediverse platform or unique person. Observation dates below come from the source, not the time this page is built.
| Platform / metric | Value | Unit | Observation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mastodon / reporting servers | 4954 | servers | 2026-11-01 | Mastodon project aggregator |
| mastodon / registered accounts | 10353294 | accounts | 2026-11-01 | Mastodon project aggregator |
| mastodon / monthly active accounts | 716962 | accounts | 2026-11-01 | Mastodon project aggregator |
The official aggregator returned the observations shown here when checked on 1 November 2026. Only that verified subset is published. Missing Pixelfed, PeerTube, Lemmy or Bluesky totals are not zero and should not be inferred from this table.
Definitions
Registered accounts counts accounts reported by the included servers. A person may have multiple accounts, and an account need not be active. Monthly active accounts refers to access through the website or API within the preceding 30 days, as explained in the Mastodon project’s annual report. It is not a count of people posting daily. Reporting servers describes the aggregator’s observed server population, not a complete registry of every installation.
Do not compare a platform’s registrations with another’s monthly activity and call the larger count the bigger audience. The same person can use multiple networks. Adding those accounts does not deduplicate them. A server leaving a crawler’s coverage can reduce a total without demonstrating that every account on that server was deleted.
Coverage and practical interpretation
The source covers the Mastodon project’s reporting population. It does not measure all ActivityPub implementations, bridge users, private installations or people reached by a publisher’s posts. Different trackers may discover different servers or apply different stale-server rules, so their headline totals are not interchangeable.
For an individual, check whether the community you want participates. For an operator, local active accounts, storage growth and moderation work can be more useful than a network headline. For a publisher, inspect real replies and distribution alongside audience measurements. Search impressions and outbound clicks are separate metrics and are not included in these public downloads.
Choose a practical route: Mastodon apps, Pixelfed for photographs or PeerTube for video. No unsupported growth trend is needed to decide which task each serves.
Methodology
The local snapshot records metric, value, unit, observation date, collection date, coverage, methodology and limitations. The maintenance script fetches the official public statistics endpoint only when deliberately run. Production builds consume the saved data; they do not refresh dates or depend on the source being online.
Collection date means when the source was retrieved. Observation date means the source’s dated record. The monthly-activity window is described by the source; the downloaded period_start is left null rather than inventing an exact boundary not supplied in the endpoint. Null means unavailable, never zero.
Treat two snapshots as a trend only after checking equivalent definitions, coverage and observation intervals. An isolated increase or decrease can reflect reporting changes. The current page does not claim an all-fediverse growth rate, a global platform ranking or a causal explanation for user activity.
Download the data
CSV snapshot · JSON snapshot. Both are generated from the same records as the table. They contain public platform observations and source notes, not Fediview’s private analytics. Retain the source and dates when reusing the figures; consult the source’s reuse conditions before bulk redistribution.
Update log
1 November 2026: Replaced unsupported narrative growth claims with an official, dated Mastodon subset and matching downloads. No earlier comparison or live refresh is implied. Future changes should record a new collection and observation date only after obtaining new evidence.
Sources
Official public statistics endpoint supplies the values. The annual report linked under Definitions explains monthly activity and the limits of mapping accounts to people. The network comparison discusses different user needs without treating incompatible counts as a league table.