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Fediverse Observer is offline and no longer being developed (cake.kobel.fyi)
submitted 4 weeks ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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The domain https://fediverse.observer redirects to sedo now.

On October 11th these two commits where made to the repo:

this will be my final release, glad to have contributed since 2011 to some fediverse stats, https://fedidb.com/ is a great resource with more interest

this software is no longer developed

Sad to have lost such a great resource.

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[โ€“] 3 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

but their MAU math is suspect

Do they do any math? I assumed it's simply additive. They get the MAU from individual instances via their crawler, then display a total?
Differences to other sites is probably due to the set of instances checked, not anything math related.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

    You'd think it's straightforward and additive. I added up all their listed instances for a couple different softwares. The math was wrong and overestimated the MAU count. I checked it a few times across a couple weeks. Couldn't quickly figure out a pattern to how the math was wrong each time.

    Maybe they fixed it in the last ~6 months, but I wouldn't count on it. I believe it's the same Dev as pixelfed and loops. So, not sure they've done any work on fedidb in years (to my knowledge, they've focused on Loops and Pixelfed).

    Edit: to clarify, adding the MAU of all their listed instances for a particular software was lower than the total MAU they reported for the software.

    Edit 2: Just checked their Piefed listings and it's still wrong. Fedidb states: ~7.0k, actual addition: 6858 MAU.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Have you contacted them about the discrepancy? Ideally FediDB could just become the new Fediverse Observer.

    Missing out on accurate data about Fediverse growth would really suck. ๐Ÿ˜•

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 4 weeks ago

    I just confirmed the problem still exists and messaged them via mastodon about it.

    Probably didn't let them know originally because I didn't have a mastodon account at the time and already had a good option (fediverse-observer).

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Differences to other sites is probably due to the set of instances checked

    https://fedidb.com/software/lemmy?search=lemmy.world&stats=1

    Fedidb doesn't seem to include lemmy.world, which seems like a substantial omission, as I believe that it's the largest Lemmy instance.

    EDIT: And my own home instance, lemmy.today, also doesn't seem to be on there:

    https://fedidb.com/software/lemmy?search=lemmy.today

    The largest user count server that they seem to query is lemmy.ml:

    https://fedidb.com/software/lemmy?search=lemmy.ml

    EDIT2: Your home instance, kbin.earth, does seem to be on there:

    https://fedidb.com/servers/kbin.earth

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