Real quick here, I was just surfing around a bit checking out
Mastodon (open source decentralized Twitter alternative) . I wondered what the Korean adoption of it was like.
Is it popular in Korea? No, no it's not. But its popularity has slowly risen over the past year.
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| Mastodon use in Korea. Source. |
Numbers in Korea seems to fluctuate between 700~900 users. Compare that to nearly 1 million in neighboring Japan.
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| Most populated Korea instance of Mastodon. Source. |
- The most "popular" Mastodon instance (≈local server, sort of) is called Twingyeo (트잉여), at https://twingyeo.kr, even though a domain lookup says it's hosted in Japan. It holds 492 users (as of this post), so about half of all South Korean users.
- The second most popular is Sakaba at https://sakaba.space which appears to be running in Japanese yet a lookup indicates it's from Busan, South Korea. Both appear to have userbases heavily from the otaku demographic. Some have been to the Google offices. Neat.
- Coming in 3rd was https://chorus.space with 48 users.
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| About page for Twingyeo.kr Source. |
I'm not surprised by the type of users, since Mastodon is still a fringe techie thing. There are a few Korean articles, but not much. Here's a Korean-language sign-up guide but you can follow along with the screenshots:
Finally, this article suggests why Japan has so many users:
Hint: lolicon.
Will I use Mastodon? No. Should you? Probably not. Neat idea, but I just don't realistically see it ever gaining traction in the real world.
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