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@Balor Hey there! Great to see you around. Yeah, that’s been an adventure!

@tek I saw your post just after I sent my toot

Quite a full machinery you need to run Mastodon. I always wondered, with all the instances we're federated with, what the size in GB (TB ?) of the Postgres database?

@tek That's interesting, I thought we were already in the 100Gb with all the instances we're connected to.

How many instances actually are we connected to ?

Would be awesome to see a graph with all the connections

@Balor It doesn’t grow as quickly as you’d think. Fortunately! It seems to be closer to O(users). I honestly don’t know how many we federate with. I could get some raw numbers from SQL, but how many are still alive? I’m not sure. It’s probably reasonable to guess that we federate with 90% of existing multi-user servers, though: with about 4,000 users *someone* is bound to have talked to almost everyone.

There used to be great websites for that. I don’t know now.

@tek It is sad to see so many of the tools that were built around Mastodon disappeared.

Also the amount of project using ActivitySub is crazy now

Last one that I remembered were gnu social, Mastodon, pleroma.

Now I see there is also Misskey (not even sure if gnu social is still a thing)

@Balor Yeah, there were some pretty nifty tools a while ago. But ActivityPub is on fire, with so many cool new not-Twitter-alike servers built on it. I love seeing it!