There is a new setting for server operators in #Mastodon 4.4, under Administration -> Server Settings -> Discovery, called "Allow external sites to see your Mastodon server as a traffic source". If you're running a server for a larger group of people there is no privacy downside to enabling this, and it will help make the fediverse more visible as a traffic source to the rest of the web.
@Gargron Will this enable analysts to group all Mastodon domains together as ’Mastodon’ traffic source, or as social network ‘Mastodon’? Or will every server still show up as its own unique traffic source?
At work we are looking at ways to make Mastodon visible, but its distributed nature makes that hard right now.
@falken @preya @Gargron Yeah, I guess that is the solution. As an analyst I’d like to see the numbers, but as a Mastodon user I kinda like the balkanization. Harder to track, harder to block. So I think we probably will not be building such a solution.