

Lazy request warrants a lazy response. LMAITFY:
About 1.2 to 1.4M active users across the fediverse, with Mastodon making up the bulk at around 990k MAU on its own. Other platforms are much smaller: Pixelfed ~110k, Lemmy ~48k, PeerTube ~40k, Misskey ~21k.
Since these instances are defederated, it’s an approximation.






So…you are concerned that you used a calculator instead of doing math in your head?
Did you know how to do that math before hand?
I think the biggest risk to using AI is that people don’t first learn how to do something before using tools to do the thing. In other words, our 7th grade teachers were right. You should understand the principles before accessing the short cuts.