Stefan Bohacek
Happy Friday, fediverse!
Looking at https://fedidb.com/stats, seems like things have been picking up around here again, nice!
Also, some interesting talks at today's Next Socials' PublicSpaces conference around communities, moderation, libraries and digital public spaces, and the sustainability of the open social web.
Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
@stefan Did they close another round of investment?
Stefan Bohacek
Interesting insight from Bluesky's COO.
"$100 million is a 3-year runway."
Stefan Bohacek
"Incentives are completely misaligned between users and platform providers.
[Mastodon] puts communities back in control."
https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/live/7
https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/growth-and-sustainability-of-the-open-social-web
#fediverse #SocialMedia #NextSocials #PublicSpaces #OpenSocialWeb
Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
@stefan Ah, OK. Honestly, that seems like a long runway to me; I was estimating less than 2 years. Good for them for being careful with that money.
Stefan Bohacek
@evan Not that I know, I believe this is in reference to https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b
Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
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@stefan yep
Stefan Bohacek
@rra Oh. Bummer.
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@stefan that user growth is basically 100% bot accounts connected to tags.pub though https://fedidb.com/servers/tags.pub
Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
@stefan @rra ah, ok. I've started a discussion on this here:
Stefan Bohacek
@evan Oh nothing about the service itself, just that I thought the fediverse itself is picking up in activity, with more people joining in. Now it's a bit hard to tell.
Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
@stefan @rra I'd rather they didn't exclude bot accounts. They are active and useful parts of the Fediverse. However, I do think it's good to be able to track humans.
Stefan Bohacek
@rra I do like @evan's proposal. This way services like FediDB don't have to individually keep track of bots-only servers, and revise their data as they discover them.
And consider servers like mine.
https://stefanbohacek.online/public/local
All bots, except one human.
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@evan @stefan Yes, same here. the disappointment is not about tags.pub itself but rather that what seemed like more people discovering fediverse is in fact fedidb wrongly counting tags.pub as new users. In my opinion the fix is then not necessarily in nodeinfo but rather in in Fedidb excluding tags.pub, they exclude several other instances for different reasons.
Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
@julian @stefan @rra It would help a lot if you would reply to that GitHub issue, then!
Julian Fietkau
@evan @stefan @rra Just to throw my 2¢ in, I too have fantasized about bot/human differentiation in NodeInfo, especially in the context of https://encyclia.pub eventually opening up to all ORCID users. Whenever that happens, its account stats might abruptly jump from 16 to 15,000,000 if I report all reachable accounts.
Encyclia happens to be a bot-only software and could be manually excluded from stats, but clear labeling and aggregation would be even better.
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