@thisismissem @tchambers @hrefna Very cool! We have been discussing something like an "admin load meter" for the server status page in the team too.

We found it challenging to conceptualize it as a metric (akin to the usual CPU load thingy with averages for 1/5/15 minutes) that – looping back to the discussion in the thread above – "somehow" "correctly" conveys instance size, user base, number of posts, moderation queue length .... an interesting design question to work on.

@ton @tchambers I couldn't find the number of moderators (or moderator-hours) on mastodon.social from a cursory look.

My guess is that no, the averaged ratio will not hold. There will be many more users (registered and monthly active) per moderator.

@tchambers And if we look at the total Fediverse user count, not the MAUs?

There are about 10 million users according to fedidb.org, so we get a ratio of 1/370.

@tchambers Thanks for sharing! Here is a back-of-the-envelope calculation for the whole Fediverse, using data from fedidb.org:

Assuming that Monthly Active Users (MAUs) are the relevant quantity, and assuming further that there is at least one admin or moderator per server, the ratio is (1 million) to (27 thousand) which is approximately 1/37.

Take that with a pinch of salt though, it is but a very crude estimate which averages over wildly differently-sized instances etc.

(EDIT: *May* data)