Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Mastodon Users @usercounts@mastodon.social

3/12/2025, 8:31:56 PM

Public

Lets talk about why we have less accounts lately (a thread)

I basically added a 3 month allowance for discovered instances to grow. If the instance did not grow in post count, it becomes ignored from the count. This is quite different from previous versions of this script that seemed to treat a shrinking instance as some kind of anomaly (same with instances that grew "too quickly" but that's somewhat fair given bots etc). This is and will be "normal" though.
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