usercount
elk
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
usercount
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Mastodon has reached 13M accounts
The latter. Source is at https://github.com/gallizoltan/usercount which states:
> A bot which counts users from all instances listed at https://instances.social then posts statistics to Mastodon.
> User Count Bot for all known Mastodon instances
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Mastodon Hit 10M Users
https://github.com/gallizoltan/usercount
The bot is open source, it crawls the list at https://instances.social and checks on each instance how many users they have and how many toots (statuses) they have.
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The Hockey Stick is Happening
Maybe related to their latest code change? Hard to tell... https://github.com/gallizoltan/usercount/commit/028aae8df4dcf51f047345c6b9f6e409e8e903bd
elk
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Phanpy: A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client
This has lead to a delightful variety of custom clients like https://phanpy.social/ - https://elk.zone/ is another example that I really like.
It's the complete opposite of the Twitter API situation, where they locked their API down and killed the entire ecosystem of third-party clients.
- Elk client for Mastodon is in Preview mode
- Mozilla.social is live and open to registration
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Do we think about vector dbs wrong?
And there are tons of third party clients. I think Tusky is the best one I’ve seen for Android, and there’s an interesting web-based one called Elk that’s very nice. You load up https://elk.zone and then use it as a front-end to sign in to your server.
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BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
The answer to that is https://elk.zone atm, a fun and chef's kiss interface (built with nuxt). You can insert elk.zone/ before any Mastodon url. https://phanpy.social is also great, with multi columns even for lists.
A browser plugin (like "Mastodon – Simplified Federation") to follow, favorite, etc. directly on any server has also improved my experience a lot.
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Ask HN: What will it take to get more people using Mastodon more?
Quick! Tell Obama and Taylor Swift about https://elk.zone! They're going to be so excited!
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/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 495, Part 1 (Thread #641)
Also try logging in through https://elk.zone/ if you want to stick with the familiar twitter interface
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Why are reblog/favourite numbers different between platforms?
For me, the boost/reply-numbers using https://elk.zone have been much more reliable than the original app. (It's also the (web)app that convinced me. Mastodon is the real deal.)
- Extraño el internet viejo
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New Mastodon for Android release coming next week [...] new profiles, new settings, new search, and more
Try elk.zone. You can log into the UI with an account from any instance. I use it as my main UI and it looks pretty close to twitter, at least close enough for me.
What are some alternatives?
urbit - An operating function
mjs - Embedded JavaScript engine for C/C++
mastodon - A glitchy but lovable microblogging server
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
pinafore - Alternative web client for Mastodon (UNMAINTAINED)
FastHamming - Fast implementation for truncateable extended (127,120) Hamming codes
vitest - Next generation testing framework powered by Vite.
printf - Tiny, fast, non-dependent and fully loaded printf implementation for embedded systems. Extensive test suite passing.
go-playground-wasm - A version of play.golang.org that runs completely in the browser
jerryscript - Ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine for the Internet of Things.
slacktyping - i'm typing when you're typing