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I had another idle thought about fedi statistics while taking a break from working on hosting stuff to work on fedilist for a minute. So, 56 instances have more than a million posts and FSE is ranked 55. Obviously most of the big instances are there, including pawoo.net, which accounts for 20% of the fediverse (657037/3128855 is a hair short of 21%).
Here is a graph plotting the number of accounts on an instance (y axis, log scale; pawoo blows the scale and, smashing all the other instances near the bottom so you can't read the labels) against the number of posts per user (x axis, also log scale in one graph, linear scale in the other). So you can see (roughly) which instances have a really high ratio of posts to users.
Obviously these metrics aren't particularly meaningful, some of them are fun, but this one's a kinda interesting metric; once an instance is old enough, you can kinda gauge whether people stick around and stay active. At #22 with 596.98 posts per person, FSE's right next to our friends at SPC (#24, 548.75 posts per person), both of which are to the right of the bulk of the other instances on the list. The top of the list is dominated by bot servers (mstdn.foxfam.club, botsin.space, etc.) but mainly Japanese instances. (If you're following any Japanese people or you watch TWKN, you'll probably already know why: they make a lot of pretty short posts.) Pawoo's surprisingly far down the list, at 83 posts per user.
Of course, mstdn.beer makes a very good showing, #4 with 5,881 posts for each of the 523 people on there. ぺ〜〜い! :drinkin:
Top of the list is flower.afn.social, way past everyone else with 707 users but 7.3 million posts, 10k posts per user. It appears to be dedicated to Flower Knight Girl (and the rules prohibit speaking negatively about the game), a mobile RPG. (I didn't look into it, but there was mention of daily login rewards so it's probably one of *those*.)
Anyway, here are some graphs.
Oh, also there are instances that put <iframe>s in their descriptions for some reason. (It turns out to be people embedding youtube videos.)
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