They have links on the bottom of their web page to Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and Flikr…I get that thats where people need the most saving but FFS boost the numbers of the good-guys at least

weird it links back to this page, but the actual text in my post is as you have written.

How does it look if you click the dots/menu for my post then click, view source?

Thanks! it reminds me I meant to add to it.

Posts are replicated across any instances that are federating (think “following”) your host instance so the metrics you seek are not possible without data from each server in the federation which could be ~40 servers currently. Its only a crucial point for sponsored content creators I think.

In terms of stats about the size/activity of the fediverse I think the most informative source currently is lemmymap here I’m very grateful for the insight it provides, but I suppose its far short of what you want.

Edit: some more graphical stats are available here

true. Not much for them to gain from the enthusiast groups, vs the bad press from animal welfare groups

what country are you based in, you would probably need to look at government requirements for wild fish and game harvesting, animal welfare/husbandry etc

Cool to see it maturing like this!