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.

  • Pamasich@kbin.earth
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • Vicinus@piefed.zipEnglish
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      1 day ago

      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.

      • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        2 days ago

        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. 😕

        • Vicinus@piefed.zipEnglish
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          1 day 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).