**Aral Balkan** @aral@mastodon.ar.al · Aug 23, 2018, 09:20

**Aral Balkan** @aral@mastodon.ar.al · Aug 23, 2018, 09:20

Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al

Number of accounts is the wrong success metric for the fediverse; number of instances is the correct one.

Absolute failure state of the fediverse is 7 billion accounts and one instance.

**IntegralDuChemin** @IntegralDuChemin@qoto.org · 2018-08-23T09:58:48Z

IntegralDuChemin @IntegralDuChemin@qoto.org

@aral One instance per user would then be the optimum?

I mean why don't you take the ratio total_number_of_instances/total_number_of_users?

**qwazix** @qwazix@mastodon.social · Aug 23, 2018, 10:53

**qwazix** @qwazix@mastodon.social · Aug 23, 2018, 10:53

qwazix @qwazix@mastodon.social

@IntegralDuChemin @aral I'd go for the product of the two :-)

**Eden** @eden@queer.cloud · Aug 23, 2018, 11:32

**Eden** @eden@queer.cloud · Aug 23, 2018, 11:32

Eden @eden@queer.cloud

@IntegralDuChemin @aral Or even number of instances who have an optimum number of users?

Like more than a hundred or so, but less than 1000s of users.