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The plot shows the relationship between the number of users each instance in mastodon had two weeks ago (horizontal axis) versus the number of new users in the last two weeks (vertical axis). Each point correspond to a instance. We can see that there is a relationship between them, meaning that the "rich-get-richer". However, the most rapidly-growing instances are Mastodon.world and mas.to which are not the biggest.

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The plot shows the relationship between the number of users each instance in mastodon had two weeks ago (horizontal axis) versus the number of new users in the last two weeks (vertical axis). Each point correspond to a instance. We can see that there is a relationship between them, meaning that the "rich-get-richer". However, the most rapidly-growing instances are Mastodon.world and mas.to which are not the biggest.
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Esteban Moro (estebanmoro@datasci.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 09:51:08 JST Esteban Moro

The number of users by instance in #mastodon is highly unequal. Some servers (mastodon.social) have a significant fraction of the number of users. If the ubiquitous "rich-get-richer" (RGR) phenomenon kicks in, we might end up with a couple of instances having all of the users. But did it kick in? Here is the relationship between instance's size and growth. There is a little bit of RGR, but some of the rapidly-growing instances are small. Decentralization also in how the network grows.

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