> Mastodon (another decentralized platform) and Meta (the corporation that runs Threads, which has links to the fediverse) didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment about whether they’re seeing increased usage as well.

The Verge needs to either hire someone who understands how the open social Web or needs to stop assuming that everything is a company, lol. How could Mastodon "comment"?

That said, @dansup, you might need to add an option to see all localities to https://fedidb.org/. That'd help journalists using something like this to get better numbers.