This could be relevant:
https://github.com/statping-ng/statping-ng

depends on your instance lol
the one that I am using is working juat fine
while fosstodon was down a few minutes ago
so the beauty of Mastodon is that it will fully down only arond the time that whole internet goes down

in long term, yes

but we will have to improve it a lot before it becomes so easy that even the most smoothbrained individuals can use it

what exactly does “locality-specific” mean here?
https://fediverse.observer/map seems to show more instances, but I guess those additional ones are not locality-specific?

sublemmy

lf only there was a word for it, like a “community” or something.

> The press release you’re looking for is no longer available.
Please use the menu above to view other relevant releases. heh
Now I wonder whether I should delete the posts that I made on Reddit.

actually, Matthew (the main Matrix dude) clarified this:

the >60M users (actual figure is 64M) is based on the phone-home reporting to matrix.org that synapse optionally does
the graph looks like this:
Screenshot 2022-07-14 at 10.58.51.png
of these, around 30M are natively on Matrix (the others are bridged in from other platforms)
and of those about 14M are long-term matrix users

I’m still trying to find the source of this “60 million users” claim. Any idea where that came from?

I think that there is some potential in this idea.

Not sure about “default”, but as far as I know, most of the Fediverse platforms can be themed, so it would probably be a good start to design an uniform look for those that have that option already.

This kind of thing can be most easily achieved through bottom-up grasroots movement.

Try making some drafts of how you think the “similar aesthetic guidelines” would look like, gather people who are interested in this idea, and start working on your vision.