Monthly Active Users:

Software	Current	Two Days Ago [2D]	Last Week[7D]	Last Month[30D]	3 Months Ago[90D]	6 Months Ago[6M]	1 Year Ago[12M]
Piefed	5556	4923	4738	2026	1584	1666	260
Lemmy	39183	36996	36510	35624	35811	40133	47182
Mbin	825	811	795	744	757	906	860
Threadiverse	45564	42730	42043	38394	38152	42705	48302
Mastodon	798673	741297	749916	729258	672733	690496	844236
Pixelfed	115309	100508	103924	114965	82325	96797	304563
Peertube	40855	28211	29431	27906	26560	23452	34627
Loops	8110	7961	7706	2613	1840	26939	26110
Bookwyrm	1609	1338	1460	3759	2846	3020	7005
Friendica	2637	1693	1578	1411	1353	1732	4279
Forgejo	124	86	501	507	419	327	644
Funkwhale	270	225	233	266	199	248	483
Flohmarkt	33	27	37	26	5	0	0
Fediverse	1013184	924076	936829	919105	826432	885716	1270249

Difference:

Software	-2 Day[2D]	-1 Week[7D]	-1 Month[30D]	-3 Months[90D]	-6 Months[6M]	-1 Year[12M]
Piefed	633	818	3530	3972	3890	5296
Lemmy	2187	2673	3559	3372	-950	-7999
Mbin	14	30	81	68	-81	-35
Threadiverse	2834	3521	7170	7412	2859	-2738
Mastodon	57376	48757	69415	125940	108177	-45563
Pixelfed	14801	344	32984	32984	18512	-189254
Peertube	12644	11424	12949	14295	17403	6228
Loops	149	404	5497	6270	-18829	-18000
Bookwyrm	271	149	-2150	-1237	-1411	-5396
Friendica	944	1059	1226	1284	905	-1642
Forgejo	38	-377	-383	-295	-203	-520
Funkwhale	45	37	4	71	22	-213
Flohmarkt	6	-4	7	28	0	0
Fediverse	89108	76355	94079	186752	127468	-257065

Change (%):

Software	-2 Day[2D]	-1 Week[7D]	-1 Month[30D]	-3 Months[90D]	-6 Months[6M]	-1 Year[12M]
Piefed	12.9%	17.3%	174.2%	250.8%	233.5%	2036.9%
Lemmy	5.9%	7.3%	10.0%	9.4%	-2.4%	-17.0%
Mbin	1.7%	3.8%	10.9%	9.0%	-8.9%	-4.1%
Threadiverse	6.6%	8.4%	18.7%	19.4%	6.7%	-5.7%
Mastodon	7.7%	6.5%	9.5%	18.7%	15.7%	-5.4%
Pixelfed	14.7%	0.3%	40.1%	40.1%	19.1%	-62.1%
Peertube	44.8%	38.8%	46.4%	53.8%	74.2%	18.0%
Loops	1.9%	5.2%	210.4%	340.8%	-69.9%	-68.9%
Bookwyrm	20.3%	10.2%	-57.2%	-43.5%	-46.7%	-77.0%
Friendica	55.8%	67.1%	86.9%	94.9%	52.3%	-38.4%
Forgejo	44.2%	-75.2%	-75.5%	-70.4%	-62.1%	-80.7%
Funkwhale	20.0%	15.9%	1.5%	35.7%	8.9%	-44.1%
Flohmarkt	22.2%	-10.8%	26.9%	560.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Fediverse	9.6%	8.2%	10.2%	22.6%	14.4%	-20.2%

• Note: Threadiverse is Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin. Fediverse only accounts for listed software [12], not the other [117] software tracked by the website.
• Source: Fediverse-Observer
• Caveats: Only using 1 source, using two different sets of data within the same source (why 6 month[6M] and 1 year[12M] data seems off compared to the others[*D], I didn’t dig through the code to figure out why that would be).

Takeaways:

• Big growth in the Fediverse this week (ex. Mastodon >50%, Lemmy and Piefed >10%). Looks like the Fediverse-Observer software updated yesterday and found(?) a bunch of previously unknown servers (10-50%). Due to the change, my API code now works and made this post far easier :)
• Piefed and Loops had positive growth each day last week
• Congrats to Piefed (>5000 MAU) and PeerTube (>40,000 MAU) for reaching All-Time highs
• Forgejo lost a server in the last week that had ~80% of its users (20260217)
• Fediverse bigger than it was a 12 months ago!

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

1. Edit: Fixed Threadiverse Change (%)s. Known bug, will fix for next time (already fixed).
2. Edit: Added another takeaway. Changed the code to be more accurate and added the result (a couple numbers slightly changed)
3. Edit: Rimu of Piefed found a bug in the Fediverse-Observer server list (duplicates). I looked through and found a few more duplicates. The data for those 4 software (Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed and Peertube) have been adjusted to be accurate with the removed duplicates. Fediverse-Observer dev has been notified of the issue.
4. Note: Fediverse-Observer dev is now aware of the issue. The issue is caused by either server mis-configurations or bad actors trying to inflate numbers. The dev is working on a method to clean up or filter out the issue. I’ll check next week for duplicates and adjust numbers accordingly if they are still there.
5. Edit: Fediverse-Observer dev fixed the issue the same day they were informed. I changed the numbers to be from the fixed day [20260222] and ignore the erroneous data day [20260221]. PeerTube did hit an All-Time high with 40k. Next week’s post will be on Monday to ignore the erroneous data day again (-1 week comparison).