I never had a strong opinion about how exactly Mastodon measures "active_user_count". I did find it curious from https://api.joinmastodon.org/statistics https:/

I never had a strong opinion about how exactly Mastodon measures "active_user_count". I did find it curious from https://api.joinmastodon.org/statistics https://api.joinmastodon.org/statistics that they seem to be scraping the servers every day, and this suggested to me that they might be counting daily active users. I could be wrong though. I don't know the technical details of how they calculate it. And I already said earlier: "In any case, as another commenter mentioned, DAU and MAU tend to be relatively close. You don't go from 1.2M monthly users all the way down to 50K daily active users, that's nonsense." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35602391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35602391 So I was already granting that 1.2M could be the monthly user account, even while considering the possibility that it might be the daily count. I don't really care either way. I don't think it helps your argument if it's the monthly user account. So let 1.2 million be the monthly user count. Now will you explain your estimate methodology? At this point I doubt that you will. You seem to be very committed to avoiding the question, even though I've granted the assumption that you wanted.