@dansup would love to see daily/ hourly graphs posted from your data!

@dansup

I'm guessing they're inaccurate even w/out the duplicate staging. Like all social media, Mastodon has bots (not all nefarious, of course). Odds are very high that the bots are not removed from the count.

People who are interested in user/post counts want to see real, human user quantification. When they see the numbers, that is what they assume they're seeing. So, including the bots is misleading.

But, I also understand the difficulty of parsing bot/real. It's a clusterf*ck.

@dansup please create a bot that uses your API to graph user count including a link to a post explaining your methodology