Good morning Fediverse.

[helge@mymath.rocks]

Good morning Fediverse.

I left tail -f /var/log/nginx/access.log open. Thus I learnt about fedicheck.online. Maybe someone will find it useful.

[trwnh@mastodon.social]

@helge 75% of fedi servers that have ever existed are dead? huh.

[erincandescent@erincandescent.net]

@trwnh @helge lots of infant mortality, but it quickly gets into the tables of all instances ever because many people's first action is follow gargron

[jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io]

@erincandescent @trwnh @helge is it following gargron that does it, or joining relays?

[mariusor@metalhead.club]

@trwnh @helge I suspect that could be instances behind Cloudflare reacting to bot behaviour.

[erincandescent@erincandescent.net]

@jenniferplusplus @trwnh @helge if you follow a mastodon.social user it'll appear in m.s' /api/v1/instances/ where the scrapers will find it

[jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io]

@erincandescent @trwnh @helge ah, right. I forget that large portions of the mastodon API just don't have any authentication

[erincandescent@erincandescent.net]

@jenniferplusplus @trwnh @helge well even if this one did getting a m.s account should be scraper action #1

[helge@mymath.rocks]

$ curl https://mastodon.social/api/v1/instance/peers | python -m json.tool  | grep activitypub-troll.cf | wc -l
7336

That's 10% of ActivityPub instances. Another few percents come from people using ngrok. That's just the stuff I know of the top of my head about.

[raphael@mastodon.communick.com]

@trwnh @helge

Where/how are you finding these numbers? I think it would be cool to have a chart showing how old a server was when it disappeared to demonstrate the Lindy Effect.