> 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®istrations=&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?
> Do you ever tie in metrics from ryona or do you guys collect pretty much the same stuff¿
He grabs blocklists; this is more like general information about an instance. If you look at it, you can see: http://demo.fedilist.com/instance/freespeechextremist.com . It has a lot of statistics: uptime, what it's running, posts per user. On instances that share an IP like SPC, it shows what other instances live there: http://demo.fedilist.com/instance/shitposter.club . Admins, whether registrations are open or closed, response times, all of that. It does link to the relevant FBA pages at the bottom of the "Federation Info" section. And it's got stuff like this: http://demo.fedilist.com/source-code .
> i know the internet of stuff runs primarily on linux, but do you know what flavor of it? I thought thatd be good to know if i was going to consider cnc training
IoT stuff usually runs some self-rolled distro, sometimes Android, there are kits for building tiny distros for common boards.
@p@ArdainianRight@ChristiJunior@Rasterman@admin@menherahair@verita84@interpride i saw some if what your talking about i checked out drc what does it mean by "this user has chosen not to be visible"¿ i think thats what it said about all admins but 313. Oddly there was a user labled an admin ive never heard of before too ill need to look into that later he mightve left the instance before me. Tell me howndoes this info help you¿ its all bery impressive but what would one trouble shoot or use this info for i know data is always valuable especially if its refined like this into information
@p@ArdainianRight@ChristiJunior@Rasterman@admin@menherahair@verita84@interpride thats awesomeness! Do you ever tie in metrics from ryona or do you guys collect pretty much the same stuff¿ im thinking about learning cnc, oh shit i was gonna ask you, i know the internet of stuff runs primarily on linux, but do you know what flavor of it? I thought thatd be good to know if i was going to consider cnc training