@jeffcliff @fedilist Well, *.masto.host is an instance: nobody's gaming it.

I think the better thing would be to start tracking when things swing in a weird direction: number of posts or new accounts or new peers goes up faster than expected. This would be useful for people that want to spot anomalies (like the *.gab.best or *.activitypub-troll.cf instances creating massive spikes in peer lists for some servers, or a spambot creating a big spike in posts) or people that want to see when something interesting is going on with the network (e.g., which instances are starting to get more activity).

I'm trying to avoid doing anything to it that takes more than 15 or 20 minutes (because busy :liquidocelot:) so maybe instead of writing it, I'll just expose a firehose RSS feed and hope someone else writes it. All the changes, as they come in, as fast as anyone's bot cares to refresh, then they can do the data analysis.