@dansup @jaz what's up with the reporting on @nodebb ? https://new.fedidb.org/software/nodebb these numbers are not right

@liaizon @jaz @nodebb not right how? We just go by the nodeinfo numbers

@dansup great stuff, thanks!

@dansup @jaz @nodebb this server lists 2.2 million users https://community.sketchucation.com but there's no way that is possible so either they are faking numbers or they have a bug in their data

@liaizon@social.wake.st @dansup@mastodon.social it's possible they have a huge number of inactive accounts if registration is open. That community specifically has been around for quite awhile.

What I want to know is how most of the entries on there are found?! The majority of them don't have federation turned on...

@julian @dansup but 2.2 million?!

@julian @liaizon @dansup I'm uncertain how NodBB works, is it possible that they turned it on, which generated a nodeinfo, then turned it off but the crawler can still see the nodeinfo data? Absolutely just guessing, I have no idea how to even confirm if they are federating.

@jaz @julian @dansup we are in a thread with its maintainer so I don't think any of this can be that much of a mystery

@liaizon @jaz @julian we discover servers by crawling pixelfed peers api, so they federated at some point. We do remove servers without a reachable node info or one that blocks crawlers

@dansup@mastodon.social interesting.

@jaz@mastodon.iftas.org fwiw NodeBB v4 always generates a nodeinfo because that's not AP specific.

I was worried (not overly so, mostly just amused at this point) that FediDB was noting servers that I'm pretty sure have never federated, but I could definitely be wrong about that.

cc @liaizon@social.wake.st