Anyone know how a decentralised system like mastadon can meaningfully assess user count? In terms of accounts corresponding to real, distinct people?
And has such an analysis been done to produce the numbers this account is reporting?
And has such an analysis been done to produce the numbers this account is reporting?
The bot is open source, it crawls the list at https://instances.social and checks on each instance how many users they have and how many toots (statuses) they have.
Can Twitter even manage that, given the well known issues with bots?
But humans are nice, generally speaking... it should work as an indication that there are most likely more than few millions who've signed up at at least one of these instances.