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Table of legacy social media sites X, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Meta, their users in the EU, the number of moderators, and the ratio of users per moderator (lower number is better). Below that, a line giving the Monthly Active Users (MAUs) and number of servers for the Fediverse, and the ratio of that. The legacy social media data are from this article: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-has-significantly-fewer-moderation-staff/714650/ The Fediverse data are from https://fedidb.org for May 2024 Here is the table data in tab-separated format: Users in EU Moderators Users per moderator (lower is better) X 111,400,000 1,849 60,249 TikTok 142,000,000 6,278 22,619 LinkedIn 47,900,000 1,150 41,652 Meta 264,000,000 15,000 17,600 MAUs Servers Fediverse 1,038,983 27,788 37 (via fedidb.org, data for May 2024)

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Table of legacy social media sites X, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Meta, their users in the EU, the number of moderators, and the ratio of users per moderator (lower number is better). Below that, a line giving the Monthly Active Users (MAUs) and number of servers for the Fediverse, and the ratio of that. The legacy social media data are from this article: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-has-significantly-fewer-moderation-staff/714650/ The Fediverse data are from https://fedidb.org for May 2024 Here is the table data in tab-separated format: Users in EU Moderators Users per moderator (lower is better) X 111,400,000 1,849 60,249 TikTok 142,000,000 6,278 22,619 LinkedIn 47,900,000 1,150 41,652 Meta 264,000,000 15,000 17,600 MAUs Servers Fediverse 1,038,983 27,788 37 (via fedidb.org, data for May 2024)
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Fediplomacy (fediplomacy@mastodon.pwei.at)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 23:55:31 JST Fediplomacy
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@tchambers Thanks for sharing! Here is a back-of-the-envelope calculation for the whole Fediverse, using data from fedidb.org:
Assuming that Monthly Active Users (MAUs) are the relevant quantity, and assuming further that there is at least one admin or moderator per server, the ratio is (1 million) to (27 thousand) which is approximately 1/37.
Take that with a pinch of salt though, it is but a very crude estimate which averages over wildly differently-sized instances etc.
(EDIT: *May* data)

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