That being said, shout out to the self-hosted crowd! Look at the graph for number of servers!

Speak for yourself. I enjoy analyzing the posts and discussing the growth. It brings up discussions of what stats are better to look at to analyze user growth, how to handle the growth, and what if any moderation/sign up workflows should be implemented. Go be a hater somewhere else.

Though it does highlight that it would be nice to have some kind of estimate of actual humans using the system.