When I started building https://fedidb.com as a developer activitypub debug tool, I needed to get info about servers, and I noticed that thefederation.info was pretty slow and had a dated UI. So I built a crawler and started collecting stats. When I noticed that more people were checking stats, I spun out the dev tools to pubkit and made FediDB a fediverse database of stats. Now, many of those network stats sites have disappeared. But FediDB is still alive, and stronger than ever ✨