Last update: July 7, 2023
The fedistats website tries to collect as little personal information as possible. Due to the nature of the analysis, we're collecting public data from mastodon.
For technical reasons, the webserver collects logs in the Common Log Format including your IP address. These are used to identify servers that are doing weird requests (there are really many of those!) and to count the number of distinct visitors to the site.
If you click on the outgoing link on a card on fedistats (e.g. on the hashtag section), we will also track that for analytics purposes.
fedistats does not use external analytics solutions beyond that.
fedistats uses cookies to store persistent state across the site (e.g. you last search) and to remember that you clicked the cookie consent banner.
fedistats collects toots using the public federated timeline endpoint. From this data, links, nodes, hashtags, and user ids are extracted to compute the different aggregated statistics that we're showing on fedistats. We're never showing individual toots, and the analysis also does not go further back than 14 days.
We're getting the data from mastodon nodes via the public instance endpoint to collect data like the description, server version, number of users and posts. This is done once per day.
We're following links that are in the data to retrieve the favicon, and open graph social tags for presenting links on fedistats.
fedistats uses the free FontAwesome iconset which is served locally with the website, so no external requests are made to third-party icon providers.
fedistats also loads some java script libraries (chartjs for the charts, lozad for lazy loading, cookie-banner) from jsdelivr's CDN network. For their privacy policy, see here.