It turns out the #Fediverse can bring in more web traffic than Instagram, if you aggregate those decentralised sources.
A thought experiment on how long-tail effects mean federated social media will always appear irrelevant as a traffic source, even when it isn't.
https://test.roelof.info/log/how-federated-systems-dissapear/
It seems like folks looking at their traffic sources must have an interest in knowing if requests are originating from Fediverse
(or else they wouldn't look, or wouldn't care either way)
And given that interest, they'd want their tools on their end to reflect that aggregation.
I wonder how hard it would be to work with these analysis tools to integrate that aggregation of referrers, for the common good of both their users and ours.
