I wonder how many are bots
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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Or alternate accounts.
I hear some weirdos made a few of those just to be safe, but I definitely wasn't involved in any of that!
What sort of absolute maniac would make two accounts??
Maybe they want to interact on an instance that's defederated by/defederates another. That's the case with Beehaw, although a lemmy.ml account would work just fine for it too.
I ended up making 2 accounts; one for beehaw, and now this one for my own instance. Not that beehaw was bad, I just wanted my own
I saw another post that was saying 90%
I honestly wonder where are the users, every subreddit that I used to follow and that have been created here practically has only 200 or less subscribers.
Something I realized: If you visit a community on a different server, it doesn't show all subscribers. Like on Feddit.de, it tells me that there are 993 subscribers for this very community. But if I visit lemmy.ml/c/memes it shows that the community has over 18k+ subscribers. Maybe it only shows the subscribers from your own instance? Like 993 People from Feddit.de are subscribed to this community? No idea.
Oh and a lot of bots too.
It only shows the subscribers from your own instance I think; all the communities I've subscribed to on my personal instance shows 1 sub (being me)
I hope this changes in the future... something like 98(9.1k), meaning the first number is the local instance and in brackets are global.
Oh I didn't know that.
Since you're registered on lemmy.ml, and thus probably viewing everything through that, I think you only see the subscribers on lemmy.ml. Most people and comms are now at lemmy.world.
E.g. "my" [email protected] comm shows 2.52k subs (up from ~800 2 days ago), but through lemmy.ml it only shows... 38.
Just joined last night! I'm still a little confused with it but I refuse to stay on reddit.
It quickly gets easier. Try some apps. There’s 10.
I'm on Jerboa now, thanks!
It's a really good app tbh.
It's a tad confusing at start but you'll get used to it quickly.
Come on over to @Fedquestions and ask about whatever isn't making sense!
I can't figure out how to subscribe to it from my instance, it doesn't show up when I search it either. Please help!
I wonder how accurate these statistics are. Total users are over 1mio now, but users that have been active at least once in the last half year are only ~45k. Which is not bad either, but a far cry from 1mio.
What causes this difference?
I know at least at the start some users were confused by the federation process and created 10+ accounts to "subscribe" to other instances plus there have been bots signing up through smaller instances without capcha or email verification so that might explain the discrepency
Fledditors are all new users that by could not be reflected as active for 6+ months due to their accounts being ~2-3 weeks old.
The 6-month-active count usually means "This user has been active at least once in the last 6 months" not "This user has been active for over 6 months".
So if you sign up today and spend today on Lemmy, then you have been active at least once in the last 6 months.
According to some data, it might be 90% bot accounts due to the lack of account verification.