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marcelcosta@bcn.fedi.cat ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

@jupiter_rowland @jdp23 @tchambers Hey! That was the point of the analysis in part, to generate debate and tools to monitor.

In theory, absolute accounts of servers include data from many softweres. It's the MAU value that only includes Mastodon servers. I think that both measures show the same trend, so.

And yes, API query must be improved. Some diaspora servers are excluded because of lag in answering. This should be addressed (although the biggest instance is alive but will close soon and doesn't accept new posts).

If there is interest on that, we can plot software distribution across servers and users.

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jdp23@indieweb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
@marcelcosta @jupiter_rowland @tchambers agreed, it's useful data despite the quirks-- and there's clearly interest!
There are several other measures of software and instance diversity that seem interesting to me: Mastodon's share of the overall Fediverse, mastodon.social's share of Mastodon, the top 10 instances' share of Mastodon, percentage of single-user instances and so on.
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- marcelcosta@bcn.fedi.cat ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  @jdp23 @jupiter_rowland @tchambers Maybe we could group all this questions in the socialhub threat (or here, if people don't have accounts there, although discourse is great to keep track of discussions).
  
  I did a previous analysis (with serveral limitations) with March data, although it is in catalan language.
  
  https://agora.fedi.cat/t/analisi-dels-servidors-del-fedivers/617
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  - jdp23@indieweb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    @marcelcosta it's fine with me if people want to cut-and-paste the questions to the socialhub thread but I like my discussions about the #fediverse to take place in the fediverse! I agree that discourse is currently much better to keep track of discussions but there's no inherent reason the fediverse should be bad for that and "eating our own dogfood" creates pressure to improve things here.
    @jupiter_rowland @tchambers
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    marcelcosta@bcn.fedi.cat ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    @jdp23 @jupiter_rowland @tchambers Good point. I will have to bookmark the threat to revise when I want to repeat the analysis. 😄
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tchambers@indieweb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
@marcelcosta @jupiter_rowland @jdp23
Thank you Marcel! And appreciate your joining into this discussion on your work!
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- marcelcosta@bcn.fedi.cat ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  @tchambers @jupiter_rowland @jdp23 You're welcome! This was my intention. Me and others are really interested in measuring decentralization and network quality over quantity.
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