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@Soy_Magnus @ArdainianRight @ChristiJunior @Rasterman @admin @interpride @menherahair @verita84

> what does it mean by "this user has chosen not to be visible"¿

There's a link with help text if you click on that.

> there was a user labled an admin ive never heard of before too

Yeah, admins are not cleared, just new ones are fetched.

> Tell me howndoes this info help you¿

Besides the stuff I said? Like knowing if an instance is down and when it went down is already a very useful feature. Knowing who the admin or being able to read the about text without having to load a bunch of JavaScript and click around, that's useful: I wait for one page to load, not for a page to load and then JavaScript to run to draw some links that I click and then wait for another page to load. What admin to talk to if there is a problem, how fast fedi is growing, etc. "Wildebeest" was a Cloudflare project to create a "serverless" fedi instance, you could see how many of those exist at http://demo.fedilist.com/instance?q=&ip=&software=wildebeest&registrations=&onion= , for example. This kind of thing is pretty useful.

> what would one trouble shoot

Well, for one thing, you can see if an instance is up or down or if it's just your connection. Or like I mentioned with the RSS feed for FSE, I can use that to tell when FSE goes down. We were able to check the impact of the activitypub forkbomb with it by looking at who had collected peers of that type. It's hard to tell what anything is going to be useful for before you have it, right?

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