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Chris Trottier

@Gargron @mastodonusercount Does your algorithm count instances that no longer exist?

21 Mar 2023 at 5:57 | Open on mastodon.social
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Eugen Rochko
Chris Trottier

@Gargron @mastodonusercount That’s definitely another consideration. For example, Switter is dead and that had over 100K accounts (last I checked).

21 Mar 2023 at 6:00 | Open on mastodon.social
Chris Trottier

@Gargron @mastodonusercount But that brings your count of 1.3M MAUs into starker focus because if your algorithm is only seeing 6.5M “live” accounts, that’s pretty good retention.

21 Mar 2023 at 6:02 | Open on mastodon.social
Wilford

@atomicpoet

@Gargron @mastodonusercount
mastodonusercount says it uses instances.social but on instances.social/list/old it states..
There are currently 18348 (9576 up) instances being tracked, with a total of 7822356 (3822238) users.
They do include pawoo.net in their count.

21 Mar 2023 at 7:12 | Open on mastodon.cloud
Eugen Rochko

@atomicpoet @mastodonusercount I likewise suspect that is the reason for the difference, but of course it's hard to confirm.

21 Mar 2023 at 6:08 | Open on mastodon.social
Allen Very Serious Versfeld

@Gargron @atomicpoet @mastodonusercount Is it possible that accounts moving from server to server could be counted as duplicates? Am I right that a "Moved" account is actually a new account, with some data migrated and the old account redirecting to new?

21 Mar 2023 at 8:14 | Open on mastodon.monoceros.co.za
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