Post APqFGLc2XOI82ks9Sa by estebanmoro@datasci.social
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 (DIR) Post #APqFGLc2XOI82ks9Sa by estebanmoro@datasci.social
       2022-11-21T21:25:44Z
       
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       The number of users by instance in #mastodon is highly unequal. Some servers (mastodon.social) have a significant fraction of the number of users. If the ubiquitous "rich-get-richer" (RGR) phenomenon kicks in, we might end up with a couple of instances having all of the users. But did it kick in? Here is the relationship between instance's size and growth. There is a little bit of RGR, but some of the rapidly-growing instances are small. Decentralization also in how the network grows.
       
 (DIR) Post #APqFGNQPnaBHfHRtcO by estebanmoro@datasci.social
       2022-11-21T21:27:25Z
       
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       You can see how unequal is the distribution of sizes by looking at the horizontal axis (note that it is in log-scale). Also @manlius has a recent toot about this: https://mathstodon.xyz/@manlius/109383027753990134
       
 (DIR) Post #APqFGP2jmaQggQO0zQ by estebanmoro@datasci.social
       2022-11-21T21:29:47Z
       
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       Thanks to @mauforonda for making the data of the growth on different instances available. Here is his fantastic visualization about these data https://observablehq.com/@mauforonda/what-goes-on-in-mastodon
       
 (DIR) Post #APqFLfzADcrug2EHJo by smallsees@social.dropbear.xyz
       2022-11-21T22:01:32Z
       
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       @estebanmoro Any idea what the three horizontal lines (or clusters of dots) down the bottom of the graph is? I totally get the row for 1 which is the single instances but what are the other 2?
       
 (DIR) Post #APqIGcc1dHUed6giLA by estebanmoro@datasci.social
       2022-11-21T22:05:23Z
       
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       @smallsees I think they are the lines for 2 and 3, right?
       
 (DIR) Post #APqIu0mlgt52taUm7U by smallsees@social.dropbear.xyz
       2022-11-21T22:41:23Z
       
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       @estebanmoro Ah yeah, it's a logarithmic graph so the unmarked line is 10 and about halfway between it and the 1 line is 3-ish if I've remembered my logarithms correctly. So 2 and 3 checks out.