#6288·lemmy

Provide more statistics

Author: NutomicCreated Jan 19, 2026Updated Sep 14, 2026
Labelsenhancementarea: api

For example:

  • Number of linked instances
  • Total number of posts/comments/users/communities (This way we can calculate which percentage of the whole Lemmyverse is seen by a given instance)
  • Percentage of local posts/comments which are tagged for each language. So we can reliably find out the primary language for an instance.
  • user retention (percentage of users that are still active after 6 months? 1 month?)
  • ban rate
  • percentage of accepted signups vs failed/declined (maybe this just promotes accepting spammers)

Related discussion

These can be provided as part of /api/v4/site, or a separate /api/v4/stats endpoint. Instead of a scheduled task which stores the numbers in the db, it should be suffiicient to query these numbers directly in the api handler, and cache the result in memory.