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France ~681.650

Roughly ~681.650 people are active on and around AT Protocol in France.

Two main numbers

Confirmed accounts in France5.472deduplicated DIDs
Modelled total681.650estimated
The whole bar is the modelled total; the filled part is what we can confirm today: 5.472 of ~681.650, about 1%. That share climbs the longer we measure, though it never reaches 100%.

How we estimate this

AT Protocol has no country field, so we cannot count directly. We measure posting activity per language across Europe, weight each language to the countries where its speakers live, and calibrate the whole model to the Dutch figure on atproto.nl. Language only feeds the estimate; it never confirms that an account belongs to France.

What we can stand behind

5.472 accounts we can place in France for certain, each from a deliberate signal. The real number is higher, which is what the estimate models.

Where these accounts come from

Those 5.472 accounts by the signal that placed each one. Every account is counted once, under its strongest signal.

Country domain3.748A country-code handle (for example ending in .fr).
Community verifier1.653On a country community's verifier list.
Company domain45Works at a company with a domain in the country (via Sifa).
Sifa location26A location in the country on their Sifa profile.

What it cannot see

People who post mainly in English are invisible to a language model, so an English-first account in France is not captured, which is part of why the real number sits above the confirmed floor.

Updated 2026-09-15.

Local communities in France

City communities, run by their own people. They cover a city, not the whole country.

There is a community here

atproto.fr — French-language articles, a protocol wiki, a Matrix channel and meetups in Paris.

Run by its own people, not by us. We link to it and stay out of the way.

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