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This happened quickly…Lemmy is now the second biggest platform next to mastodon!?! (hachyderm.io)
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This happened quickly…Lemmy is now the second biggest platform next to mastodon!?!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@Odo Interesting. Lemmy is somewhat strict in its definition of "active user". You must post to be "active", so all lurkers aren't counted.

I'm not even sure commenting counts toward being "active", though I'd guess it does.

So user growth without growth in "active users", especially on smaller servers, is plausible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I guess that's possible. The instances I mentioned look like this:

https://fedidb.org/network/instance/parapheum.com

2 posts, 1 comment overall.

It had 10 users two days ago and 4.6k today, not a single one of them seems to have posted or commented.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Odo

So going to that instance, and going to its list of federated communities (https://parapheum.com/communities/listing_type/All/page/1) shows a few sizeable ones. Also note the instance's description (see https://parapheum.com/) which is basically to distribute the server load without any commitment to any particular kind of community.

So, could be full of lurkers, or parallel accounts created to avoid server overload that will be soon dropped. So probably some bloat in these numbers, as there are for other platforms too

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Odo

This one is probably more illustrative: https://lemmy.podycust.co.uk/

Looking at their numbers on their home page, it looks like people might be moving off of the instance, but again, people have definitely subscribed to various communites there and might just be lurking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here's an insightful comment I ran into, it looks like lemmy.podycust.co.uk / parapheum users don't seem to be making much interactions with other instances.

[–] thefool 1 points 2 years ago

So it excludes commenters? Guess I'm not an active user then