So... There seems to be a common misconception where people assume all of Mastodon has 180,000 users because mastodon.social says it's home to that number of users.
The real number is closer to 1,5 million. Those 180k are only mastodon.social users and there are like... 3,000 other servers?
I wonder what I should do. 🤔
@Gargron pull account number?
Add?
@thegibson Pull from where tho. Some central aggregating service, one of the few that exist right now. What if it's down? What if it's being slow?
Using total row count of accounts table might be more reliable and more in spirit.
@Gargron @thegibson Could you report on how many active users your instance has seen in the past hour / day / week / month, and corresponding post activity?
Actives are more interesting than total accounts anyway. And without adverts, viewers are of less interest.
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