I'll do it again in #english, maybe it is of interest for others too:
@heiseonline is on of the biggest official accounts on #Mastodon by a german media organization. It's now a year old and I had a look into the ~62k followers. Turns out, that federation in the #fediverse seems to work: Less than a fourth are from mastodon.social, the rest are on more than 1900 different instances.
@mho@heiseonline I have no idea what this means, but 62K followers is impressive. @NPR still has less than 14K followers across the Fediverse while they had 8.7M when they stopped posting to Twitter. https://twitter.com/heiseonline has 243K followers and is still active.
If you take the creation date of the accounts following @heiseonline, there is a clear peak in the 4th quarter of 2022 (#TwitterTakeover), since then, there is visible stability: More than 5000 follower where created in each quarter.
If you just take the months and limit them to 2022 and 2023, you see the big peak in November (roughly a third was created then) and the slowdon in summer 2023.
Finally the follower by software of their instance: Almost all are from #Mastodon, only from #firefish and #pixelfed are each more than 100. On fourth place is already a bridge for the #TwitterAlternative#Nostr, whch itself is not part of the #fediverse.
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