Personally, I'm thinking that the most accurate stats...

Personally, I'm thinking that the most accurate stats tracker for Mastodon is the-federation.info.

But even that has issues that are perplexing.

For example, the-federation.info lists mastodon.social as having 993,783 accounts -- all of which are apparently active during the past 6 months. Yeah, I don't buy that.

Like 22 Mar 2023 at 9:59 | Open on mastodon.social

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MomoInSpace :transgender:

@atomicpoet Ah, but I didn't entirely catch that you were questioning the accuracy of these stats. They also could be wrong. But to give you an good opinion about that I would have to look into the stats and I don't have time for that :(

22 Mar 2023 at 10:57 | Open on mastodon.social

Kevin Davidson

@atomicpoet How many of these trackers publish their methodology? This site seems to be definitely wrong for Friendica as their totals are about half what is apparently visible from the admin console of an actual Friendica instance.
The Fediverse’s instinctive dislike of being indexed will mean all of these trackers will get blocked by some subset of instances.

22 Mar 2023 at 14:35 | Open on mas.to

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