vetehinen, 1 month ago

@elCelio well the name of the list is obviously outdated (and was not really accurate to begin with since listed accounts even outside of threads are not all mastodon) but the good thing is that there's now all these big threads accounts that we can follow without having to use threads. I guess it also speaks for how large the threads userbase unfortunately is in comparison.

elCelio, 1 month ago

@vetehinen yes, I noticed that the name of the list is not accurate.

it should be something like "most followed fediverse accounts that can be followed from mastodon.social" 🤔

FinchHaven, 1 month ago

@elCelio

So

Somebody's ripping-off the #Pixelfed guy who runs #FediDB?

Quite an accomplishment

Stealing another web site's data

How 1990s

elCelio, 1 month ago

@FinchHaven the data from the two websites are different.

FinchHaven, 1 month ago

@elCelio

Then which data is credible?

elCelio, 1 month ago

@FinchHaven probably both.

the data is different but similar, they probably use different methods.

FinchHaven, 1 month ago

@elCelio

Which begs the question:

If the data is "different" because it's produced by "different methods" why pay any attention to any of it?

elCelio, 1 month ago

@FinchHaven

Because it is credible data,

Research data are credible even if it doesn't give identical figures, in particular if different methods to retrieve the data are used: on the contrary, it makes the data even more credible.

Thank you for pointing out that there are other sources that give similar results!