I've reached out to Meta/Threads devs regarding Nodeinfo and stats numbers for https://FediDB.org, unfortunately their legal dept rejected this.
I will use estimated numbers with the hope they will see this and have justification for reporting accurate stats.
Even though I have my own reservations regarding Meta (and how they've treated Pixelfed), putting my ego aside for the benefit of the fediverse is required when running an essential fedi service like FediDB.
@dansup The stats on FediDB haven't been accurate for a while, a couple of legitimately run instances are banned, despite comfortably belonging in the top 10 largest instances by user count and MAU.
@dansup@wysteriarymycrowd.ca has not done anything in the spam or purposeful inaccurate count department, but we're in the hidden list for some reason. We did have abuse hurled at us a couple of years ago where thousands of garbage accounts signed up, but we nuked those within hours.