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Fediverse Observer is offline and no longer being developed

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    #1

    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.

  • 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.

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    #2

    o7 I used that site a lot

  • 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.

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    #3

    @vicinus@piefed.zip fyi, this will impact !fedilytics@piefed.zip right?

  • @vicinus@piefed.zip fyi, this will impact !fedilytics@piefed.zip right?

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    #4

    Yeah. I saw the dead website earlier today and have been trying to figure out how to keep the posts working.

    The fediverse software post, I could rewrite some code to gather fedidb daily (to my knowledge, they don't have all time series data available), but their MAU math is suspect. So, not a great option, but my only other thought is basically remaking fediverse-observer and I do not have a server or potentially relevant server skill set beyond cron jobs.

    For the threadiverse instances post, I can keep gathering data from the instances I already have in my database, but don't really have another way to find new ones. Maybe, I could see if I could scrape it from fedidb (I couldn't get their API working in the past).

    In conclusion, the posts are not in a good place 😞

  • 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.

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    #5

    Damn. I definitely made good use of that website.

  • Yeah. I saw the dead website earlier today and have been trying to figure out how to keep the posts working.

    The fediverse software post, I could rewrite some code to gather fedidb daily (to my knowledge, they don't have all time series data available), but their MAU math is suspect. So, not a great option, but my only other thought is basically remaking fediverse-observer and I do not have a server or potentially relevant server skill set beyond cron jobs.

    For the threadiverse instances post, I can keep gathering data from the instances I already have in my database, but don't really have another way to find new ones. Maybe, I could see if I could scrape it from fedidb (I couldn't get their API working in the past).

    In conclusion, the posts are not in a good place 😞

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    #6

    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.

  • 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.

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    #7

    Fedidb is so bad though. Maybe im missing something, but to me it looks like you cant even get a historic user count or comment count graph for any specific software. What use is seeing the current number? Thats just kinda useless if you are trying to get any insight into the general development of the fediverse. The thing is that the old fedidb.org literally had this, but when they moved to .com they fucked it up for some reason.

  • 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.

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    #8

    There's also the FediIndex which, however, isn't as convenient to use.

  • Fedidb is so bad though. Maybe im missing something, but to me it looks like you cant even get a historic user count or comment count graph for any specific software. What use is seeing the current number? Thats just kinda useless if you are trying to get any insight into the general development of the fediverse. The thing is that the old fedidb.org literally had this, but when they moved to .com they fucked it up for some reason.

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    #9

    FediDB seems to be opinionated as well. It seems like if Daniel doesn't like a server app, he won't add it. AFAIK, he has been notified about the existence of Forte, but he still hasn't added it.

  • 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.

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    #10

    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.

  • FediDB seems to be opinionated as well. It seems like if Daniel doesn't like a server app, he won't add it. AFAIK, he has been notified about the existence of Forte, but he still hasn't added it.

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    #11

    I remember when he changed the metric on which fediverse software were ranked, just so that pixelfed rises up and rank or two !

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    #12

    Glad you enjoy them 🙂

    Just need to figure out how to keep them going properly. I have a couple thoughts I'll look into tomorrow. Hopefully one of them bears fruit.

  • 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.

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    #13

    Neither FediDB nor FediIndex provide filtering or searching instances by language 😕

  • 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.

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    #14

    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. 😕

  • 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.

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    #15

    With how important Fediverse Observer is, the developer should have made an effort to hand it and its data over to another member of the community before winding the project down.

  • 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.

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    #16

    Differences to other sites is probably due to the set of instances checked

    Fedidb doesn't seem to include lemmy.world, which seems like a substantial omission, as I believe that it's the largest Lemmy instance.

    EDIT: And my own home instance, lemmy.today, also doesn't seem to be on there:

    The largest user count server that they seem to query is lemmy.ml:

    EDIT2: Your home instance, kbin.earth, does seem to be on there:

  • Differences to other sites is probably due to the set of instances checked

    Fedidb doesn't seem to include lemmy.world, which seems like a substantial omission, as I believe that it's the largest Lemmy instance.

    EDIT: And my own home instance, lemmy.today, also doesn't seem to be on there:

    The largest user count server that they seem to query is lemmy.ml:

    EDIT2: Your home instance, kbin.earth, does seem to be on there:

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    #17

    That is interesting to know. It doesn't look like lemmy.world has opted out, judging by their robots.txt.

  • With how important Fediverse Observer is, the developer should have made an effort to hand it and its data over to another member of the community before winding the project down.

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    #18

    yup, the volunteer shoulda volunteered more

  • yup, the volunteer shoulda volunteered more

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    #19

    While we should all be grateful for the work the developer put into the project, it's also not uncommon for open source projects to use life cycle planning to determine potential redundancies if the original developer steps down. As things stand, their contributions are likely to go to waste, whereas ideally others could have picked up the torch from where they left off, preferably with historical data intact.

  • While we should all be grateful for the work the developer put into the project, it's also not uncommon for open source projects to use life cycle planning to determine potential redundancies if the original developer steps down. As things stand, their contributions are likely to go to waste, whereas ideally others could have picked up the torch from where they left off, preferably with historical data intact.

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    #20

    Yup, the unpaid volunteer shoulda did that. Oh well!


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