meta/Fediverse-investments-an-estimation.md

Outline

Release a report on the estimated collective current investment on fediverse technology:

Look at qualifiers like:

• Used system resources (CPU, storage, networking)
• Amount of software developers actively working on Fediverse software >products
• Amount of system administration engineers actively working on Fediverse software products
• Amount of moderation and governance people

An estimate of investments in the Fediverse

Introduction

• Define Fediverse / Social web
• Goals of this document

Methodology

• Numbers used & why these numbers and not other numbers
• Services / platforms investigated
• Why these services & platforms?
• Software applications
• Topic opened: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/any-info-on-the-estimated-collective-investments-time-money-on-fediverse-tech/4844?u=bjornw

A closer look at the Fediverse platforms

• Name of service/platform
• Description of service/platform
• estimated nr of installations
• estimated nr of users (Monthly Active Users)
• estimated nr of developers working on the service
• estimated nr of moderators
• estimated costs for the service

Estimating investments in the Fediverse

• Conclusion

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
• https://fedidb.org/
• https://mastodon-analytics.com/
• https://www.thinkimpact.com/mastodon-statistics/
• https://fediverse.observer/
• https://the-federation.info/
• https://fediverse.party
• https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-f1d5-nodeinfo-in-fediverse-software/1190
• https://codeberg.org/fediverse