i think my Nostr indexer knows most of the active users on Nostr now and it looks to be about 22-23k accounts. it's watching the global timeline on some of the most active relays on the network and is listening to all events from them to collect account information, and it isn't updating its account database very often anymore.
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Does it match the stats from
i'm not tracking the most spammy relays and the stats there seem to suggest about 12k active users per day. i'm not keeping stats per day. this has been running for a few days. their stats say about 20k weekly active "high quality" users - i.e. not spam bots, so that matches up fairly well with what i'm seeing.
i'm gonna say we're about 22k active humans on here.
output from my indexer. the pubkey number is the number of unique accounts. the rest is just how much information my indexer has been able to gather about them.