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1. Taru Luojola (stoori@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 13-Aug-2018 08:07:50 EDT Taru Luojola

   Worried about the dominance of big instances? No, really, this is quite natural.

   As an emergent and self-governing system, it could be expected that the size distribution of #Mastodon instances roughly follows Zipf's law.

   Does it?

   At first you see the top 6 instances, and then the rest. But on a log-log scale the size distribution is close to a straight line, which would be expected from an emergent system.

   #statistics

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   1. Taru Luojola (stoori@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 13-Aug-2018 08:09:20 EDT Taru Luojola

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      The deviations are perhaps due to the still young age of the fediverse. Expect it to smooth out. But still, expect that the big instances will always dominate.

      Data: 200 biggest instances from https://instances.social.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_law

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