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   Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 13:41:41 JST Eugen Rochko

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   Mastodon bumps up the active user count when a user logs on, including right after sign up. I’m not surprised the monthly active user number is coming down a bit, there’s no service out there that has 100% retention on new sign ups.

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     かき＠ねむしー (oyster@nemushee.net)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 13:43:37 JST かき＠ねむしー

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     @Gargron However, it is good that the number of people is increasing.

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     Grant 🇺🇦ArmUkraine🇺🇦 (grant_m@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 13:46:44 JST Grant 🇺🇦ArmUkraine🇺🇦

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     @Gargron I should log out and log back on occasionally :)

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     Philip N Cohen (philipncohen@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 13:48:24 JST Philip N Cohen

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     @Gargron I've seen a number of new people sign up and drop off after a few days. They may want to just check it out, consider options, wait for more critical mass. Trying to think back to my Twitter experience circa 2011, when only a small fraction of my friends were there, and it wasn't a hub for public activity and news.

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     Ahri Boy ?? (zakiuem@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 13:48:54 JST Ahri Boy ??

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     @Gargron well, while competitors are falling, especially Twitter and Reddit.

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     Charity Feb (charityfeb@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 13:56:48 JST Charity Feb

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     @Gargron @Gargron I have never actually felt so enriched by a social media service as I do with Mastodon. I am immunocompromised with LongCovid, so this *matters*. Thank you. <3

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     MartinL_NZ ☑️ (martin_nz@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 14:03:55 JST MartinL_NZ ☑️

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     @Gargron

     In the past I've signed up to, for example, #amazon and #spotify just to have a look around. Never bought or listened to a thing.

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     Kim Mi (k1m@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 14:08:46 JST Kim Mi

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     @Gargron As long the „big media players“ start to join #Mastodon soon, i don‘t think this is an actual problem…

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     Dan Greaney (dangreaney@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 14:28:25 JST Dan Greaney

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     @Gargron Imho, showing follows on other servers would be a big boost to value and retention. Difficulty of discovery, building list of accounts to follow has really limited my use.

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     Michael (alpha1beta@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 14:40:05 JST Michael

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     @Gargron if you haven't logged in in a while, because of a cookie or only using apps with cached credentials, do you still count?

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     Aafke (aafkepostma@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 15:26:31 JST Aafke

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     @Gargron ??

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     Klaus Klein (keith19@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 16:04:43 JST Klaus Klein

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     @Gargron yes that makes sense. Thanks for the confirmation

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     @other95 (other95@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 16:43:59 JST @other95

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     @Gargron it'll be interesting to see what happens when the scheduled big changes happen over at the bird site soon. Word counts in the thousands is a big change.

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     Luc (lucseleventje@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 17:28:47 JST Luc

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     @Gargron Oh no, are the numbers coming down? The shareholders will be furious ??

     (I'll keep up my support on Patreon :)

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     Stefan Scholl (stefan_s_from_h@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 18:09:10 JST Stefan Scholl

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     @Gargron this will harm #Mastodon’s IPO. ?

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     col (qol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 18:35:27 JST col

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     @Gargron is there a service out there that has 100% retention on new sign ups?

     The answer to this riddle is- “Time”

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     :🍪:Semele (semele@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 18:56:01 JST :🍪:Semele

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     @Gargron This just needs to keep on being what it is. It's a smooth experience. It suits some people more than others. "Horses for courses", as the saying goes.

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     Alejandro Martinez (alexito4@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 19:45:13 JST Alejandro Martinez

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     @Gargron how does this work with the api? With the explosion of iOS apps being developed I wouldn’t be surprised if a few folks are api-only users

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     BernieWonIowa (berniewoniowa@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 20:16:13 JST BernieWonIowa

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     @Gargron
     To me, the most important thing is maintaining an alternative to #corporate #socialmedia which is what #mastodon does ♡

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     Yury Molodtsov (yury_mol@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 20:24:15 JST Yury Molodtsov

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     @Gargron i think the point is that influx of users didn't have as many people inviting their friends successfully (which would offset the churn).

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     socke81@mastodon.social's status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 21:00:33 JST Socke81

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     @Gargron Das Folgen ist einfach zu kompliziert wegen den verschiedenen Servern. Könnt ihr die Benutzer nicht auf alle Server verteilen? Auf anderen servern ohne Passwort. Nur damit man folgen kann ohne das man die Domain seines Mastodon Servers eintragen muss. Das ist viel zu kompliziert.

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     Nate Westheimer? (innonate@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 22:40:29 JST Nate Westheimer?

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     @Gargron no one expects 100%... But if Mastodon focused more on building (and rebuilding) a healthy graph early in the user lifecycle (e.g. first step after signup), churning users would be < signups and this would be a growth story. External tools like Movetodon help, but the tried and true model is 1) mobile address book matches for strong connections, and 2) a much improved (and centered in the UX) recommendation API for weak ones.

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     Arun Shah™ (arunshah240@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 23:52:29 JST Arun Shah™

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     @Gargron give new feature to increase new users.

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     Alex Barredo 📉 (barredo@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 00:31:05 JST Alex Barredo 📉

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     @Gargron yup. Retention rate looks pretty pretty good to me

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 03:17:28 JST Eugen Rochko

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     @scottgal Yep

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     Scott Galloway (scottgal@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 03:17:29 JST Scott Galloway

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     @Gargron Would users naturally migrating to other instances not influence that too? So multiple 'new users' with the original wind up becoming 'inactive' as the user migrated?