Eugen RochkoAug 11, 2018

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. 🤔

Show threadACCOUNT MOVEDAug 12, 2018
@Gargron I’m not a dev, but is there a way you could build basic, occasional user stats reporting into the protocol so instances all report it somewhere?
Show threadEugen Rochko
@chartier it's there under /api/v1/instance and /api/v1/instance/activity
Aug 12, 2018 at 12:45amWeb
Show threadACCOUNT MOVEDAug 12, 2018

@Gargron But perhaps that data could be displayed somewhere more prominent for us normal folks. Like some of the big instances could report:

300,000 local / 1.5 million total

Show threadEugen RochkoAug 12, 2018
@chartier Well, the local part is just displayed on /about and /about/more pages.