When I first started my server in 2022 I was worried I will be shouting in a void, because it sounded quite tricky to get seen in the Fediverse. But I learned very soon even a tiniest instance can be seen in the vast Fediverse just like a website can be indexed to Google after a while.
Today my small Finnish server knows 31137 domains which is pretty much the entire known Fediverse, give or take a few servers gone offline. Mementomori.social has 184 active monthly users (328 users in total), but we are very well federated. How? Simply by being very active and using relays.
Public statistics in JSON format: mementomori.social/api/v1/inst… (you can get the stats of any instance by adding after the main URL: /api/v1/instance)
Mikalai
in reply to Roni Laukkarinen • • •Filing under "dismantling tech myths of 2010's" category.
Paul Chambers
in reply to Roni Laukkarinen • • •My little self-hosted instance with one user posting on a couple accounts for specialty topical posting, like hashtag games, gardening, etc, speaks to or ingests 26299 other servers.
My search index has amassed millions of posts that are searchable, and I actually use it more than Google and get better results.
I thought it would be a void, too, and another opensource project that would be fun to tinker with, and that is about all, but it has actually turned out to be my sole online social experience for over two years now.
I couldn't imagine dumping it now.
oldfriends.live/api/v1/instanc…
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kechpaja
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