How healthy is the Mastodon echo system?

What data should be tracked to determine the health?

Is growth in active users the best indicator?

Should users of Mastodon even care?

Is the network effect important?

How big should Mastodon be?

Heres a couple of charts looking at daily activity over the past month. Is this useful?

Data Source: https://api.joinmastodon.org/statistics

#MastodonGrowth #MastodonData #MastodonCharts

@ad5nl @jeffjarvis @mmasnick That decentralization brings a remarkable resiliency. Even if all current servers are nuked, you could fire up a new machine (assuming someone has a copy of the software) and you're back in action like that (sort of).

The notion of downloading all your data and taking it anywhere reminds me a lot of the novel Walkaway by @pluralistic

(Note to self: DL your Mastodon data regularly.)

#NoteToSelf #MastodonData

Here's an awesome as heck tool, to rummage through your Mastodon account archives.

Thanks, @SuricrasiaOnline!

https://github.com/blackle/mastodon-data-viewer.py

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