RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@thanksstevenkim/117150622690285108 A new update to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Fediverse is deploying... now! This round was shaped by useful feedback I received after sharing the project. The main point was fair: this is not a complete census of the fediverse. It is a continuously refreshed sample, discovered from deliberately chosen seed instances and their public peer relationships. I’ve now made that limitation explicit in the documentation, rather than presenting the numbers as if they represented every ActivityPub server on the internet. I also separated two things that are easy to blur together: - federated services built primarily for the fediverse - general publishing sites that participate through ActivityPub, such as WordPress or Ghost That distinction matters when interpreting totals. A WordPress site with the ActivityPub plugin is still part of the network, but it is not the same kind of deployment as a Mastodon, Lemmy, or PeerTube instance. #Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenSource #Data