Hosted on my own hardware currently, open source code here if anyone else wants to try it: gitlab.com/masland.tech/matrix-activity-tracker
Wow this is exactly what matrix needs rn.
I created a public activity tracker for the matrix protocol network
Submitted 4 days ago by jaykrown@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 days ago
jaykrown@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Glad to hear it, if you have any suggestions please let me know.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’ve never explored the Matrix. Reddit use to be the only ‘social media’ type outlet that I frequented, and now Lemmy. Total Accounts: 2,222,678. That seems significant.
jaykrown@lemmy.world 2 days ago
In hindsight the accounts counter was incorrect it was adding up all the accounts from every room without considering that many of the same accounts come from different rooms. I’ll have to add a deeper tracker which I don’t think is necessary to track individual accounts, outside of the scope of the activity tracker.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So, for the clueless (me), what is Matrix. I hear people talk about it. Is it a chat platform, forum platform like Lemmy, or other. Might as well ask the stupid questions.
MITM0@lemmy.world 3 days ago
How many good projects should I bookmark🙂. My booksmarks have become Chonk
artifex@piefed.social 4 days ago
This is very cool. Have you uncovered any hidden gems with it yet (eg genuinely active nice communities, etc). My brief experience with matrix left me feeling that either a) either all of the activity on matrix was for matrix-related things, or b) it was just impossible to actually find active communities.
jaykrown@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yea I have, and that’s exactly why I created this. Finding them without this tool would have been really annoying. Here’s a screenshot of the top 12h rooms:
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Right now they are pretty diverse. The two most active I recommend starting off in if you’re English speaking are #envs_lounge:matrix.org and #anime:matrix.org
This is the one I made matrix.to/#/#all-topics:matrix.org before I created the activity tracker and realized there were several others.
hector@lemmy.today 3 days ago
So there is nothing about like niche hobbies on there? Like gourmet mushroom cultivation, or brewing I take it?
jaykrown@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The biggest problem I’ve noticed is that the amount of “Members” is displayed in clients, but so many rooms have a lot of “Members” but no real activity. Which is what this tracker attempts to solve by looking at actual chat messages and timestamps.