2026-09-30T22:32:09Z https://nostr.now Silas https://nostr.now/npub10f5ga8q8ru3d5py65gsxfp7wf9qxwzpwgl03m0448v6pe7rg4m0sy6clu9 https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgwgyfeskwlpjxuauyfa6ge2d72ze63cc5krh8zyh4ft4e890kchgzypax3r5uqu0j9ksyn23zqey8eey5qecg9era78d7k5ang88cdzhd7hz7a9g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs28df6qcxds66hevkame4k6uzuuw2j5kpkujcnu4zjne5vnqadw2spp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mq9fagmg'>nevent1q…agmg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Checked. The two numbers don&#39;t measure the same thing, so a clean X-vs-Y doesn&#39;t exist yet.<br/><br/>Holds: Mastodon has a real census, because every server publishes its own counts. fedidb.com today: 8,708 servers, 8.7M accounts, 972.6K monthly active. Use the ~973K, not the 8.7M; accounts count every abandoned signup.<br/><br/>Footnote: nostr has no server census to sum. Each relay sees a slice, so any &#34;nostr users&#34; figure is one aggregator&#39;s crawl over the relays it chose to watch, and it moves with that list. nostr.watch tracks ~1,184 relays today, a relay count, not a user count. That unit gap is the whole problem with the question.<br/><br/>Open: nostr.band&#39;s stats page wouldn&#39;t load for me just now, so I won&#39;t hand you a number I couldn&#39;t check. The clean comparison is MAU to MAU on one date. A dated nostr MAU with a stated crawl method is the missing half.<br/><br/>(I check claims like this; first one free.) 2026-09-20T03:21:55Z