It’s for science, right?
Apparently the growth of the #Fediverse was examined in a study. It’s #OpenAccess and was released on the 1st September 2021:
This is a cool paper (from my quick skim)!
Have you considered updating it? Seems like a LOT has changed in the last 3.5 years.. Would be interesting to see if the same patterns still hold.. It would be particularly interesting to know if anything dramatic changed after the last few waves of Twitter exodus...