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Hello !Friendica Support
I guess I have a couple of million dead or fake accounts in my stats on f.utzer.de.

I see

Currently this node is aware of 45,119 nodes (16,721,938 active users last month, 3,634,365 active users last six months, 58,867,121 registered users in total)


here: /admin/federation

And here the Guru writes the Fediverse only has 13 million accounts?
mastodon.social/@Gargron/11659…

What is the problem? Do we count that many more users in parts of the network that are not visible to the Mastodon world or what do I miss?

!Friendica Support
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Steffen K9 🐰
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There was a problem with fake user numbers from GoToSocial. They provide the possibility to publicly report random user counts for their servers.

If I remember correctly @Michael 🇺🇦 did something in Friendicas code to mitigate this.

@Michael 🇺🇦
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utzer
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utzer
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@Michael 🇺🇦 @Steffen K9 🐰 will that be included in the next stable?
My server is running:
2026.01
database version 1586/1586
post update version 1550/1550.
@Michael 🇺🇦 @Steffen K9 🐰
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utzer
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@wilhelm I think there is no new stable release, my Docker is configured to autoupdate. But I will check manually this weekend.

@Michael 🇺🇦 @Steffen K9 🐰

@Michael 🇺🇦 @Steffen K9 🐰 @wilhelm
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wilhelm
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ugh, wanted to check git.friendi.ca and anubis declined access 😳
2026.05 is here github.com/friendica/friendica/releases/tag/2026.05-1 not sure if add-ons were updated as expected as I recall there was some issue there. And docker may be pending, which brings up memories of 2026.01. Iirc there was some work done to smooth the process but maybe not there yet?

Edit: got in and work is already happening git.friendi.ca/friendica/docker/commits/branch/stable

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utzer
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@wilhelm oh, I never heard about a problem like that. It is my server, but Anubis is pretty new to me.
Could you disable all adblockers on the domain? There are no trackers or so.

@Michael 🇺🇦 @Steffen K9 🐰

@Michael 🇺🇦 @Steffen K9 🐰 @wilhelm
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pasjrwoctx👽
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#activitypub #Friendica #mastadon @utzer
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utzer
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@pasjrwoctx👽 yes, but I know we have people here who know the algorithm behind our Friendica stats very well, I also know that some Fediverse Systems supported faked numbers, just as @Steffen K9 🐰 wrote above.
@Steffen K9 🐰 @pasjrwoctx👽
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pasjrwoctx👽
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@utzer @Steffen K9 🐰 ok Mastadon is the Bread aisle in the market, and most people writing about the fediverse write about mastadon, they only see the bread aisle, friendica sees the entire market, all of the activitypub and yes some numbers can be skewed depending on time of day stats are collected and depending on if reporting instances are sending out false info, but overall the difference in the numbers you see verse the numbers reported again is because the ones being reported are only reporting the bread aisle they can see, where you get to see the whole market activtiypubs numbers, the sad thing is if they step off the bread aisle they would realize they are in a huge market with far more aisles then they have been staring at and reporting on;
@Steffen K9 🐰 @utzer
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utzer
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@pasjrwoctx👽 yes I know that and I always thought that the other low number is wrong, but still wonder if ours now is correct.
@pasjrwoctx👽
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utzer
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@pasjrwoctx👽 I mean the biggest blessing of the Fediverse was Mastodon coming up at some point, while Mastodon was the biggest curse since the Fediverse was born. Two sides of the same coin. :-D
@pasjrwoctx👽
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pasjrwoctx👽
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@utzer ours is more correct, and the lower ones aren't wrong they just are not the whole picture;
@utzer
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utzer
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@pasjrwoctx👽 that is probably correct, but I would still like to make sure that my number is correct (which is much higher that what you see), but that be because I set up relays on day one on this server because I wanted to ensure my one-user-account-server would receive lots of posts from all over the Fediverse. I think I also enabled server and user discovery.
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pasjrwoctx👽
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@utzer you can run SELECT network, COUNT(*) AS total_profiles
FROM contact
WHERE uid = 0
AND self = 0
AND network NOT IN ('feed', 'mail', '')
AND url NOT LIKE 'https://your-instance-domain.com%'
GROUP BY network;
from you sql, I got network
Network of the contact
total_profiles
apub
1313909
bsky
41664
dfrn
20073
dspr
478
stat
20
tmbl
2

that will give you a clear picture to what your instance is seeing and interacting in terms of actual users, then you can use that info to extrapolate across the broader fediverse get a cleaner picture of realistic numbers compared to what your admin instance reports,

@utzer
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pasjrwoctx👽
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@utzer now if Tumblr ever finishes it's migration to WordPress with activitypub, WordPress will be the largest activitypub platform on the fediverse dwarfing mastodon into obscurit and actual fediverse user numbers will explode;
@utzer
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pasjrwoctx👽
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