Gregory's ServerThe merit of that metric is debateable in the first place. What really matters is MAU (monthly active users), not total registered users, but most stats aggregators only collect/focus on the latter, and as such, that's what people see and keep track of and get excited about. And my take on it is, if people get excited about it, why not? It's still a milestone, you just have to understand the nature of the milestone.
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 That being said the nature of inaccuracy of that particular bot's data is doubly debateable. The number does align with what an alternative stats aggregator (fediverse.network) reports for Mastodon, however both include an infamous server that imported a large number of user records from its pre-Mastodon past. So while that server technically is running Mastodon software, the source of that number is different and should not be included in ours. |
@Gargron
> It's still a milestone, you just have to understand the nature of the milestone.
okay, a fair point, but how often do you personally experience people doing that versus haphazard information absorption and radically unrelated understandings, because my rate so far is pretty low
(this is a trashpost)