Oddbean new post about login | logout i know!! it’s always been unreliable when it comes to stats, mostly everything is.. you get different numbers everywhere you look, that’s just the nature of nostr i guess.. which is why i specifically dislike when people display the active user chart from nostr.band it holds 0 weight. https://i.nostr.build/Q720v.jpg
110%!!! Known this for years we don't rely on follower count but thought zaps would be a bit different at this point. Guess not!
can’t trust anything lol not even the number displaying the amount of notes n replies you put out, every single stat here is fucked lol reason why I don’t even know if advertisers will ever step in.. how will they justify the marketing dollars if they don’t have stats. But hey maybe it’s a good thing, guess only time will tell 🫡
Hit the nail on the head 100%! They'll fund their own clients and use their algo's to "verify" numbers first before they blinding step in to any Nostr environment I agree I say its a good thing
Agreeeeed!
I don't think there is anything more reliable, _especially_ when it comes to active user charts, but I'm happy to be proven wrong.
but that’s the thing it’s not reliable bc it isn’t accurate.. and I’m sure nobody has tried to do active user charts bc of the unreliability of it.. remember how much we clowned the numbers we were given when primal tried to do it ?
I don't remember about primal. Some numbers are more reliable, some less, our stats are the best estimate I have seen.
what other estimates are there ? I’ve only seen yours and primals, I didn’t know there were more to be honest.
Also many numbers under npubs/events are probabilistic counters, they are never accurate, but reliably around the actual numbers. Overall stats are different and much more accurate.
idk much about overall stats the only two examples I’ve seen are yours and primals, is there any other place I can look ?
Why or why wouldn't the stats be accurate? Are there different ways to track npub activity and events?
Because of our broken code, or probabilistic counting, or decentralized nature of nostr where we can't be sure we have all the data
Does outbox help this at all. If not does anything. Will there ever be “good” data?
