Most Popular Mastodon Instances

One of the hard parts of getting started on Mastodon is trying to pick what instance you want to create your account on. Once created you can access the entire federated universe but much like old email addresses in the past (you know before everyone mostly uses gmail now), the server you pick will be visible after your username.

(Feel free to follow me at @sztech@awscommunity.social)

I found this site that has live aggregated results – https://instances.social/list/advanced

	Server	Topic	Active Users Dec-12-2022	Active Users Feb-12-2023
1	mastodon.social	General	212,594	139,853
2	mas.to	General	76,913	38,830
3	mstdn.social	General	70,369	51,616
4	mastodon.lol	LGBTQ+	57,237	17,749
5	mastodon.online	General	48,367	28,553
6	techhub.social	Tech	45,821	23,340
7	infosec.exchange	Tech (Security)	29,885	24,757
8	fosstodon.org	Tech (Open Source)	27,179	19,471
9	hachyderm.io	Tech	15,918	20,296
10	ioc.exchange	Tech (Security)	15,271	5,803
11	ravenation.club	Ravers	12,084	3,971
12	mastodon.art	Art	9,779	7,861
13	union.place	Unions	7,166	1,278
14	mathstodon.xyz	Math	6,072	4,955
15	mastodon.green	Environment	5,782	3,702
16	awscommunity.social	Tech (AWS)	5,243	1,855
17	noc.social	Tech	5,128	2,502
18	indieweb.social	Indie	4,361	2,420
19	toot.funami.tech	Tech	4,255	1,642
20	climatejustice.social	Environment	4,179	1,912
21	social.linux.pizza	Tech	4,152	2,313

I’m interesting in the growth as these social networks getting going and I’ll keep pulling new stats in from time to time. Check out a Google Sheet with more rows and columns.

Add comments if you have other servers/instances that you want added to the list/sheet.

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