Of all the ActivityPub servers that have ever been publicly available, how many do you think are still up today?
0 to 25%47%
26% to 50%35%
51% to 75%11%
76% to 100%5%
Replying to @evan@cosocial.ca
Hey, all. Very interesting. So, I've mentioned this a few times in the comments, but I've done a survey of about 85,000 servers that have been seen by existing live servers. Of those servers, about 32% reply successfully to a Nodeinfo request. Nodeinfo is a per-server statistics endpoint.
Replying to @evan@cosocial.ca
That's interesting. I figured there'd be a LONG tail of servers that someone spun up, ran for a few days, and then shut down.
But maybe there are, but live servers wouldn't remember them?
It seems like it would be a good design for them to eventually forget inactive accounts?
I know that some accounts are listed by my server as "inactive", simply because no one on my server follows them anymore (but following back to the origin server, they are still there and active).
Replying to @TerryHancock@realsocial.life
@TerryHancock 55k dead servers seems like a pretty long tail to me.