• mesamuneEnglish
    2•12 hours ago

    Just FYI, fedidb is wildly wrong on the numbers lately. You may want a different source.

    For example, there are instances on GoToSocial that have 2-3 users showing up with thousands on fedidb EX: https://fedidb.org/network/instance/s.scintilla.social. And some lemmy servers show up multiple times on their statistics.

      • mesamuneEnglish
        2•11 hours ago

        Wish I did! I know lemmy has https://lemmyverse.net which seems accurate. Maybe others can chime in?

        Ive been keeping my eye on fedidb for a time, after they stated we had over 12 million users…then it dropped off to 11 almost overnight. It did some retroactive counting. I then looked at software in general and found they are not counting things correctly. Some things overestimating wildly (like the example above) and some its not indexing at all.

          • mesamuneEnglish
            1•6 hours ago

            Interesting. I hope so.

            I cant find GotoSocial so I cant check the above server I used as an example. However I do have a couple of servers. Let me see if they show up.

            EDIT: Looks like its MUCH more accurate on one of the servers I maintain. However im seeing a couple of servers not showing up:

            1. The # of active members is correct on the mastodon server.
            2. Peertube server is correct as well.
            3. Pixelfed is correct.
            4. Lemmy.world has 17.8K users / month on the sidebar and the website states: 17841 users. So that also looks correct.
            5. However the GoToSocial site that is my families is not showing up. And its definitely federated.
            6. s.scintilla.social also does not show up on the site. Again leading me to believe it might be something to do with GoToSocial here.

            So it might still be having issues with GoToSocial OR GoToSocial might be the odd one out. It is much better though.