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.
It seems GoToSocial comes with some reservations against being crawled, which is why fedidb had to update their robots.txt. So it might not be included here by design.
It’ll be interesting to see what’s going on with today’s bump in users. I’m afraid you might be right about the reliability, but then again the GoToSocial instance you linked earlier has now been removed.
Huh. Do you know of a better alternative?
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.
I guess there’s also Fediverse Observer: https://fediverse.observer/stats
They put the whole Fediverse at 1.38M active, so a bit lower than Fedidb. Might be more accurate.
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:
So it might still be having issues with GoToSocial OR GoToSocial might be the odd one out. It is much better though.
It seems GoToSocial comes with some reservations against being crawled, which is why fedidb had to update their robots.txt. So it might not be included here by design.
Or at least that’s the impression I get from this comment section: https://piefed.social/post/496750
It’ll be interesting to see what’s going on with today’s bump in users. I’m afraid you might be right about the reliability, but then again the GoToSocial instance you linked earlier has now been removed.