Seems unreasonably hard to map, orient in, or get situation awareness in the fediverse. This guy did some manual digging and produced what seems like a reasonable top instances list. Seems extremely top heavy with a long tail of subcritical servers. r-bloggers.com/2022/10/gettin
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Largest public instance is just short of a million. I think there are a lot of closed instances that don’t peer with any others. My guess is, the peering graph (with people doing weak ties) is likely very sparse and most just have relations with mastodon dot social or nothing
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By peering graph I mean active cross-talk and cross-server follows. Not just structural pipe. Flow in the pipe.
From what I recall from my mastodon tour of duty, there wasn’t a whole lot in my instance. Serendipity factor fairly low.
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