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I mean, that’s not specific to Matrix. Telemetry is the tool used to get the numbers, so I don’t see how you would collect numbers on servers that don’t report numbers.

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Theoretically they could be reported by federated servers that do have it enabled

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But you would miss all the numbers from non-federated instances.

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Im surprised there are zero calls to any official matrix server(s) from those instances.

Not even random API for metadata, update status, etc?

Telemtry is a word. It only means as much as it means in each context, and without full context it means little atm.

Do you have a resource where I could learn more about what data Matrix considers telemetry?

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The whole point of not being federated is not to call the other servers. I don’t run a server but I hope it’s not calling home if specifically configured to not be federated.

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