according to this as of December 2025 there were 1,632 #GoToSocial instances on the Fediverse, up 400 instances from the same time the year before:

https://prattohome.com/@ottoto2017/115869882336719794

and I keep telling people the sloth is stinky software that shouldn't be used

I've seen the raw HTML for some #piefed post content showing in the spoilerText field on some platforms via the mastodon api, including #gotosocial, #neodb (takahe/incarnator) and I think #pleroma. My current kludge is to check the spoilerText for html tags (specifically, a beginning <p>).