Friendica's Active Users 2017-2025

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Recent Timeline:

December 23, 2024: Mark Zuckerberg donates 1m to Trump's inauguration fund.

January 6, 2025: The platform spikes after Meta drops fact-checking, loosens its content moderation rules.

January, 2025: Friendica.World launches and hosts thousands of users.

January 23, 2025: The theme Bookface by Random Penguin is created to bring about a more familiar experience for people migrating from Facebook.

February, 2025: The platform peaks around the time the comms !friendica@lemmy.ca and !demeta@programming.dev are made on the lemmyverse in where I try to convince more folks to check out the platform.

March, 2025: Friendica.World applies the Bookface theme by default.

February-April, 2025: The activity drops likely due to the software not being designed to handle thousands of users and some people have stated they did not find the user interface very intuitive.

May, 2025: Raccoon launches for IOS testflight finally bringing Friendica app access to the second largest segment of the phone market after only being available on Android and Sailfish for a long time.

June, 2025: Today where the monthly active userbase is slightly larger than before (apart from 2022 10-11)