Is there any way to measure how many people have left Reddit to come to the threadiverse?

I'm currently studying the influx of people joining the network. A lot has happened in the last few days! But, I don't really have any specific stats to rely on.

So far, I've been able to use FediDB for Lemmy and Kbin, but those stats seem...low:

Lemmy: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
Kbin: https://fedidb.org/software/Kbin

I know the flagship servers for both projects got hammered hard, do we have some way to determine if the number is bigger than what these current stats reflect?

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You can verify the numbers by viewing the exact local user counts from each instance via the nodeinfo api at example.com/nodeinfo/2.0 for kbin and example.com/nodeinfo/2.0.json for lemmy. I think fedidb is close to accurate for lemmy but lagging behind a bit for kbin, specifically kbin.social where fedidb.info shows 5K and kbin.social's nodeinfo shows 20K users.
- Yeah, Dansup just responded to my inquiry on Mastodon, and said that it looks like Kbin is not being updated on his end: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110546068159426679
  Just trying to do my due diligence in figuring this stuff out. A lot of instances were struggling the last day or two.