at-mau-watcher
at-mau-watcher connects to the firehose of AT Protocol relays in order to get
a count of estimated active users in the atmosphere.
This service watches for records created by accounts - these records includes posts, "likes", following or unfollowing other accounts, blocking other accounts, etc. It only records the most recent time each account was seen, its handle, and which PDS the account resides on. It does not record contents of posts, which posts were liked, etc.
Data gathered by this service is used to create arewedecentralizedyet.online, a website that tracks the state of decentralization in practice across various networks. It is used to track statistics such as Monthly Active Users, are not directly made available in atproto. Some historical data obtained from this service is also available in the Data section of the website.
If you don't want this service connecting to a relay you operate, contact the author.
This service is written and operated by Robert Ricci, who can be reached at rob [at] ricci [dot] io . The source code for this bot is on Codeberg .