From what I remember, Misskey fills the niche that Mastodon does and it’s been popular in Japan for a lot longer than mastodon was popular elsewhere
Also I’d be curious what the breakdown of Japanese users is across the three. Overall user counts are one thing, but maybe the number of Japanese users matches that order (Misskey > Bluesky > Mastodon)
It does.
But it’s so surprising to me that Mastodon is not in the second place.
From what I remember, Misskey fills the niche that Mastodon does and it’s been popular in Japan for a lot longer than mastodon was popular elsewhere
Also I’d be curious what the breakdown of Japanese users is across the three. Overall user counts are one thing, but maybe the number of Japanese users matches that order (Misskey > Bluesky > Mastodon)
Most users are still on Twitter.
The people that have moved to Misskey are mostly erotic artists cause Misskey has less “international interference” (read:lolicon rules)
I assume at some point most mastodon instances will block Misskey for the same reason they blocked the pixiv mastodon instance(pawoo).