@evan I don't like to think anything's inevitable. I've been disillusioned with both for different reasons, but a turnaround is always possible. Still use Wikipedia heavily and Firefox as my primary browser.
@evan I once read a paper about estimating IP addresses in use using a method for environmental surveys called “capture-recapture” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_and_recapture.
The idea being that you sample a population, and you tag it. Then, as you go, you count which samples are already tagged when you pick them up again.
In the IP evaluation (https://researchportal.murdoch.edu.au/esploro/outputs/conferencePaper/Estimating-IPv4-address-space-usage-with/991005540977007891), IIRC, they were tagging the packets by just recording them, and recapturing them by sniffing from different vantage points.
I'm still fascinated by it, and wish I had somewhere to try to apply it to. Perhaps this may be useful for you?
@anime_reference I'll add them back when the poll is over! I broke my own rules about polls, so I deleted them.
no, but... the andor/rogue one storyline was tier one scifi.
The @starwars account is quite good today!
@anime_reference also did you try searching for "Wikipedia decline" or doing other research?
@anime_reference ok, so, how did you answer?
@evan
There's also the possibility that the server has a relay set up, which is usually recommended for small servers to do if they want content from more of the fediverse.