sb arms & legs

This #mastodon #instance, metroholografix.com has been running for about 2 weeks.

Thanks to 2 relays, and a post that got boosted 520 times in 5 days, my server has federated with over 5,500 other instances!

I'm rather impressed! Thank you to everyone who #boosted!

By contrast, .social has about 80,000 connections.

You can see how many instances your instance is federated with by visiting your instance URL with this pasted at the end: /api/v1/instance/peers

#fediAdmin #mastoAdmin

Jan 10 at 3:29amWeb
Show threadKinetix Jan 10
@sb There's apparently only about 20k active fedi instances, though. That's likely 80k that .social has ever seen in it's lifetime.
Show threadsb arms & legsJan 10
@kinetix
That makes sense.
Show threadsb arms & legsJan 12

@kinetix
Out of curiosity I wrote a script to hit each of the ~80K servers and report which are online and which are not.

Using the list from mastodon.social, there were 31,390 online, and 42,326 offline.

This was just a simple check on the domain, since not every #ap instance type has a common health endpoint such as mastodon's /health.

Show threadKinetix Jan 12
@sb They would all have .well-known/nodeinfo (and probably others at .well-known).
Show threadKinetix Jan 12
@sb Oh, and if you're not familiar with fediverse.observer, that's probably a good resource to use for these sorts of metrics.
Show threadsb arms & legsJan 12
@kinetix
Using something in well-known was actually my initial thought, but I wasn't sure if there were any that would be (nearly) guaranteed to be consistent. Thanks for this!