I'm trying to build some stats/models for Fedi instance scaling, and active users would be a really useful input, but all I can easily find is total users.
Anyone know a simple way to get instance MAU/DAU?
(I know some instances have published this data, but I don't really want to assume the same ratio across lots of instances.)
@sgf Do you want to count a user as active if they made any public posts?
@robryk Ideally even just actively browsing, but recent posting would be a reasonable proxy.
@sgf Eh, it seems that at least Mastodon doesn't offer an ld+json feed of all public listed posts on an instance (even if it offers a web UI to view the same).
@robryk Oh, hang on! I've just discovered https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/instance/#activity . I suspect "logins" might be what I want. I'll investigate a bit more later.
@robryk Thanks. I think it's probably not going to be that useful for specifically this request, but I hadn't thought of that and will bear it in mind for some of the other analyses I want to do.