Fediverse.observer (one of the longest running fediverse instance and software trackers, as it started for Diaspora) shut down. I think it would be really good to figure out how we can at least get a copy of the historical data and get that back up somewhere.

learned this thru https://cake.kobel.fyi/c/fediverse@lemmy.world/p/225784/fediverse-observer-is-offline-and-no-longer-being-developed

@liaizon I'm for backups of the data but also it should definitely be contextualized with, people (of those who have been indexed) have been lying in the API responses (as they should) since the start to make the graphs pretty&funny. Like it was an interesting collective-project but not an uncomplicatedly objective one.
So hopefully the backups of the data somehow keep that context in or adjacent to them.

@gaditb the data there was significantly more complete then whats on fedidb... but yes every one of these tracking projects is impressively rough on accuracy

@liaizon @gaditb How so? FediDB can provide historical data, and we have millions of records going back to 2021.

The rough accuracy is really just a matter of curation, some trackers don't care about fake or inflated stats, whereas with FediDB we do.

@dansup@mastodon.social One thing I can say for sure is that the Fediverse Observer recognized and listed more platforms. Catodon isn't displayed on FediDB at all - catodon.rocks is online over 6 months and is still displayed as "Unknown software". I sent an email about this over 10 days ago. The Fediverse Observer showed all 13 Catodon servers correctly. @liaizon@social.wake.st @gaditb@icosahedron.website

@panos @liaizon @gaditb https://fedidb.com/software/catodon

@dansup @panos just noticed your listing of castopod showing 0 servers https://fedidb.com/software/castopod but I see that @Castopod isn't exposing nodeinfo at all right now so this obviously isn't your fault. looking here I see they did attempt to support it tho https://github.com/ad-aures/castopod/blob/develop/modules/Fediverse/Controllers/NodeInfo2Controller.php

cc @benjaminbellamy I would add this to your issue tracker if you happened to get a public issue tracker up somewhere.

Thank you @liaizon, we'll have a look.

@dansup @panos @Castopod

@benjaminbellamy @dansup theres also an issue here about it from @progi1984 https://github.com/fedidb/communityDB/pull/51

@liaizon @benjaminbellamy @dansup I made a MR on @Castopod yesterday.

https://code.castopod.org/adaures/castopod/-/merge_requests/374