Did you actually delete them or set the deleted column? I'm anxious of leaving dangling references which might cause errors to pop up elsewhere but I'd rather get rid of them completely if that doesn't seem to cause problems.
I also found it wasn't reflected in the user count until I manually manipulated the site_aggregates table. I don't know if that would have caught up eventually.
Hey! I've been caught up in this. Have closed registration for now but what do I do with the created accounts? Unless I'm missing something I can't find the admin tools to deal with users except through their posts (and they haven't posted anything).
Eugen Rochko is CEO of Mastodon gGmbH which is the company which develops the Mastodon software. It isn't the software itself; that's open source and could be forked and developed by anyone. Nor is it any of the instances which can be operated by anyone who wants to and they don't even have to use Mastodon's code to do so.
I could set up a company to run an instance and call myself CEO if I wanted, it would only mean something to users on my instance, I guess.
The overlapping names are, probably unintentionally, slightly confusing.
I'm old enough to remember when Facebook Messenger was compatible with XMPP (as was Google Hangouts, then called Talk). You could talk to people on there from your own server, you could use whatever open source client you wanted. It was great.
Then they cut off the federation. Then they cut off the API.
They'll do the same again. Once enough of your friends and family are on their network they cut of federation and you have to move to them if you don't want to get cut off with it.
Cool. I think I'm going to give it a few days in case I deleted someone I didn't want to. If I hear no complaints (I'm pretty sure I'm the only real local user on my instance anyway ๐) I'll delete out the db. Thanks!