Of all the ActivityPub servers that have ever been publicly available, how many do you think are still up today?
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Yes, perhaps might've been better to make the distinction, and ask for multi-person servers specifically.
The term "server" itself is imho an unfortunate case of a lower-level abstraction (that of the installed base) creeping into a high-level one (that of the unified social network stratum). It is a passed station, but a multi-account server/instance might simply be called a Hub.
"How do you join the fediverse, Self-hosted or via a Hub?"
"My actors are all on Hubs."
(Actor is also kind of a technical name, but Person doesn't match, and Identity is awkward. Account is possible, still technical. Fedizen might be used, but rings a bit weird.)
@smallcircles @mrdk Also, I ask the questions I want answers to. I don't like being told by other people what questions I should ask. If *you* want to ask some different question, you should definitely do it! Let me know, and I'll boost it.
@mrdk As far as I can tell, about 47% of live servers are single-user.
What do you mean that the lifetime of servers doesn't tell much about the Fediverse as a whole?
@virtuous_sloth @mrdk yes, I'd probably say something like, "Of all the people who've ever had ActivityPub accounts, how many are still available today," or something similar.
@mrdk Also, as far as I can tell, about 55% of all Fediverse users are on the top 20 biggest servers. About 88% are on the top 100; about 99% are on the top 1000 biggest servers.
@evan There must be an enormous number of one-person servers, so the number of surviving servers need not tell much about the Fediverse as a whole.