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look like it currently has slightly higher MAU's then mastodon.online, hachyderm.io and fosstodon.org
anyone know why the #PeerTube instance https://phijkchu.com is listed as having 146,974 users? I think this must be someone tweaking their numbers right?
@ricci seeing your data you also have this instance loaded, so I assume you are just trusting whatever the /nodeinfo is reporting even if thats made up data?
@liaizon that's correct, I'm trusting nodeinfo. I did look a little at this one instance because yeah it's surprising. But it didn't show any obvious tells like a suspiciously stable (hard coded) value, I don't see anything in the peertube code to override user counts, etc. so I just kept it. Certainly possible they've made custom modifications to tweak numbers or some shenanigans with bots but I have no concrete reason to distrust it
@ricci oh also https://paper.wf/read is listed as having 105315 users but there is absolutely no way that is anywhere near true. looking at the recent posts there are only a handful posted perday but it lists 9130 MAU which seems impossible
@liaizon you can click on the "raw data" link under the Fediverse on https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/ to compare (I should probably make a more easily linkable version...)
@liaizon@wake.st imagine being on a server ran by a guy that looks like this
@mook there are other reasons to care about how different servers run and operate, thats the power of federation. I don't want to be on their server at all. I want to be able to follow and interact with a wide demographic of different people and there is currently a totally new demographic of people coming into this place because of this server
