Mastodon statistics bot

⚠️ This project is in development. You can contribute by creating issues and pull requests

Features

• Basic instance information listing
• Open-source, under the very liberal MIT license.
• Advanced filtering of Mastodon instances (see the #instances command reference).
• Command-line interface

PLANNED:

• Graphs about users on instances (generated server-side)

How to use this bot

Send a mention to the @mastostats bot with your command. The bot will respond with a direct message within 60 seconds of your status. You can send multiple commands in one status by separating them with a newline, for example:

@mastostats@mastodon.xyz #help
#about

If you send more than 5 commands within one minute, you will be automatically blocked by this account. The block can last up to 3 hours.

Following this bot

This bot can be followed by other people. Every 3 hours, this bot will send to each follower the server information for the follower's particular instance.

Public status

This bot also sends a public status every 12 hours about the global Mastodon statistics.

Examples

To get help about the different supported commands:

@mastostats@mastodon.xyz #help

Mastodon statistics (aka the Mastostats) bot
These commands are supported:

#about - output about information
#desc - displays instance description
#help - output usage information
#info - output information about an instance
#instances - returns list of instances based on filters

Use #help [command] to output usage information for a specific command.
If #help is used without any argument, the help for the #help command
is displayed.

To get information about Mastostats:

@mastostats@mastodon.xyz #about

Mastostats 1.0.0, by Maxime Launois

Copyright (C) 2019 Maxime Launois, licensed under the MIT License.

To get instances with 1,000 or more users, with the servers running the latest versions coming first.

@mastostats@mastodon.xyz #instances min_users=1000 sort_by=version sort_order=desc

Executed command: #instances min_users=1000 sort_by=version sort_order=desc
Returned 142 instances (2.82%)

- sinblr.com (version 3.0.1+glitch)
- abdl.link (version 3.0.1+bottle)
- social.tchncs.de (version 3.0.1)
- hostux.social (version 3.0.1)
- octodon.social (version 3.0.1)
- anticapitalist.party (version 3.0.1)
- mstdn.io (version 3.0.1)
- niu.moe (version 3.0.1)
- freeradical.zone (version 3.0.1)
- queer.party (version 3.0.1)
- ...and 132 more

To get instances running Mastodon 2.9.x or earlier:

@mastostats@mastodon.xyz #instances version=^2.9.x sort_by=version sort_order=desc

Executed command: #instances version=^2.9.x sort_by=version sort_order=desc
Returned 384 instances (7.65%)

- ecosteader.com (version 2.9.4)
- inditoot.com (version 2.9.3+inditoot)
- mastodon.xyz (version 2.9.3)
- oc.todon.fr (version 2.9.3)
- social.atypique.net (version 2.9.3)
- mastodon.cc (version 2.9.3)
- social.targaryen.house (version 2.9.3)
- mastodon.at (version 2.9.3)
- slime.global (version 2.9.3)
- social.troll.academy (version 2.9.3)
- ...and 374 more

To get popular instances which have not upgraded to Mastodon 3.0.x:

@mastostats@mastodon.xyz #instances version=<3.0.x min_users=10000 sort_by=users sort_order=desc

Executed command: #instances version=<3.0.x min_users=10000 sort_by=users sort_order=desc
Returned 7 instances (0.13%) with 1,026,390 total registered users

- pawoo.net (579,225 users)
- mstdn.jp (194,295 users)
- humblr.social (139,902 users)
- mastodon.cloud (55,663 users)
- mastodon.xyz (23,681 users)
- mastodon.technology (19,134 users)
- mamot.fr (14,490 users)

Available commands

A command starts with a hash (#) sign.

• #about displays information about the Mastostats software
• #desc displays description of a particular instance
• #help displays help about a Mastostats command
• #info displays information about a particular instance
• #instances returns a list of instances depending on specified filters

Get help

If you need any help in using the bot, send a DM to my @mlaunois account on Fosstodon.