FediDB respecting robots.txt has resulted in appr. 2M Fediverse accounts no longer being counted.
FediDB respecting robots.txt has resulted in appr. 2M Fediverse accounts no longer being counted.
FediDB respecting robots.txt has resulted in appr. 2M Fediverse accounts no longer being counted.
Prior to this change, #FediDB counted 12,923,233 accounts. Now it counts 10,868,233 accounts.
Now let me be blunt: respecting robots.txt is a good thing. But now when we look at #Fediverse accounts, it must clearly be seen with the acknowledgement that these only count services that haven't opted out of tracking.
So when people compare user counts of #Bluesky vs. the Fediverse, remember that Bluesky has the luxury of a more complete count because they host all accounts there. In contrast, the Fediverse is actually decentralized, and a good many services simply do not want to be tracked -- and are therefore not counted.
@atomicpoet @fediversenews we will know the social web is fixed when nobody cares about these numbers TBQH
@msh@coales.co @fediversenews@piefed.social Nope, everyone should be using ActivityPub-enabled services, so therefore the #SocialWeb will never be "fixed" until it becomes as ubiquitous as phones.
@atomicpoet @fediversenews well "AP Everywhere" is one means to that end certainly. Nobody except telecom industry nerds cares about MAU numbers of the various phone companies after all.
I don't have any emotional attachment to any particular protocol(s) so long as they are open, accessible and interoperable. FWIW I think ATproto is a dead end. It is an open spec and it kinda-sorta interoperates with fedi with bridges, but it is not nearly accessible enough. One must have the resources of a corporation or other decent sized organisation to fully participate in the ATmosphere ecosystem and that is a fatal flaw.