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   Marcos Huerta (marcoshuerta@vmst.io)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 17:49:04 JST Marcos Huerta

   • Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:
   • Elk
   • icecubesapp

   Select client app share on mastodon.social based on a sample of ~3600 posts per day from its local timeline. (~600 posts taken every 4 hours).

   @ivory moving on up to ~9% or so. @icecubesapp getting close to ~2%. @elk maybe 1%. The official iOS app steadily declining (presumably as new third party iOS apps continue to enter release or betas.)

   (There are a ton of application_names, so I filtered out to just look at a few. Web remains steady-ish around 35%)

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     patak (patak@m.webtoo.ls)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 17:52:22 JST patak

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     • supernovae
     • Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:
     • Elk
     • icecubesapp

     @marcoshuerta @ivory @icecubesapp @elk Interesting data. Are you planning to run this long term? I think you'll get very different results depending on the server. For example, @supernovae now offers Elk as an alternative client for https://universeodon.com and has shared the app many times so I would expect we'll see higher adoption in Universeodon local timeline. I wonder if using the federated timeline of mastodon.social may give more representative results.

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     patak (patak@m.webtoo.ls)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 21:24:06 JST patak

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     @marcoshuerta Oh, interesting, I wasn't aware of this limitation. It is a bit strange to me that the `application_name` would only be in the local timeline, so hoping it is a bug.

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     Marcos Huerta (marcoshuerta@vmst.io)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 21:24:07 JST Marcos Huerta

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     • patak

     @patak oh, and unfortunately the *federated* timeline API does not have application_name in the statuses for anything not on the instance.

     So, like if I look at my own home timeline in the API, only people on the vmst.io instance have a non-empty application_name field.

     I’m not sure if this is a deliberate or a bug. Or maybe activitypub lacks a way to send this info across instances?