Published November 20, 2022 | Version v3
Open dataset Metadata-only

Tracking Mastodon user numbers over time

Creators

Description

Description

The "Mastodon user growth" dataset tracks the total number of registered users across publicly listed Mastodon instances over time, collected by scraping the instances.json file from instances.social every 20 minutes. It provides a time-series record of user counts and status activity.

Info: The code for this project was archived on January 4, 2025. 

Details

Resource type Open dataset
Title Tracking Mastodon user numbers over time
Creators
  • Willison, Simon
    • Publisher Simon Willison
    Year of publication 2022
    Research fields Economics Communication Sciences
    External resource https://github.com/simonw/scrape-instances-social