08.02.2025 13:15 item (@item@libera.site) #Misskey #Statistics 2025-02-08 13:00 CET Number of active instances: 2 414 Number of users: 1 117 805 Number of statuses: 303 047 891 Number of users last 4h: 161 Number of statuses last 4h: 115 350
07.02.2025 21:20 item (@item@libera.site) #Misskey #Statistics 2025-02-07 21:00 CET Number of active instances: 2 411 Number of users: 1 117 181 Number of statuses: 302 679 525 Number of users last 4h: -1107 Number of statuses last 4h: 183 957
07.02.2025 13:15 item (@item@libera.site) #Misskey #Statistics 2025-02-07 13:00 CET Number of active instances: 2 410 Number of users: 1 773 701 Number of statuses: 307 999 160 Number of users last 4h: 655413 Number of statuses last 4h: 5 503 592
Calckey is deader than dead. It was forked into Firefish in 2023. Only few instances are still alive because their admins refused to move them to Firefish, and their numbers are dwindling further.
Firefish itself is dead. Official support and development ended on New Year's Eve. This month, the official server with the code repository and the lighthouse instance is scheduled to be shut down.
Sharkey is the most feature-rich. But first of all, its Mastodon client API implementation is said to be notoriously horrible. It seems to be difficult to connect it to a Mastodon app. Its developers are kind of shady; ask @Linux Is Best a.k.a. @Linux Is Best. Lastly, Sharkey's development is cosying up to Mastodon; the goal is to make it more like Mastodon. Not everyone likes that.
CherryPick is sometimes recommended. But it's a Japanese project just like Misskey itself, and AFAIK, except for one instance in the USA, all CherryPick instances are hosted in the greater Tokyo and Seoul areas.
A more common recommendation is Iceshrimp, and it seems to have the brightest future. It will soon no longer be a Misskey fork. It's currently being re-written from scratch in C# which appears to be the best way to get rid of the many issues that all Forkeys have inherited from Misskey. Its only "disadvantages" may be fewer features than Sharkey (but still more than Misskey) and its coming reliance on "Microsoft technology".
If you're in the UK and run a #Misskey/#Sharkey/&c instance, you may want to disable the "global timeline" (and probably "bubble timeline" too) in the default role, and enable it again in a role conditionally applied to local users. This will prevent your instance from serving random notes you don't control to non-logged-in users, which may increase your risks under the Online Safety Act (IANAL, this is not legal advice, consult your lawyers)