https://the-federation.info/platform/73 says for lemmy we have: 1,073,211 Users

It also says that: Last month users: 38897

Which is 2 orders of magnitude of a difference. If you look at the list of instances there ones like https://the-federation.info/node/details/48405 which have 50k users and 10 active last month users.

That means almost all of the 1 milion users are fake users.

I’m seeing people celebrating every 100k users every couple of hours without realizing this.

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    1 year ago

    600 active users a month making 230000 comments a month? Those are pretty active indeed

    Most of instances having 40K users but less than 100 actives?

    Compare the data of Lemmy.world with others. There is a common trend of ratio between users/active/posts and comments among them, and then there are those huge instances by users but zero activity?

    I’m sorry but there’s either a huge problem in the way users numbers are aggregated, or those users are just fake.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, lemmygrad really is that active. Try going to the instance to poke around and you’ll see. 600 active means 600 people have posted in the last month - like I said, lemmygrad has been around for much, much longer, so there are users who posted and then fell off, so their posts are part of the 230k comments but they don’t make up part of the 600 users.

      Also, I don’t think you read my comment properly. What I said was that the numbers are not made up, but there are bot attacks on unsecured instances. Read my previous post again please.

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        Also, I don’t think you read my comment properly.

        Oh yes, I did. You are just finding ways:

        How can you say, “Not bulshit -but- attack by bots” “350-400k legitimate” ???

        That sentence alone tells me exactly what I need to know about your way of thinking, because even if you were correct about real users and not overestimate the numbers, 350K legitimate when everybody cheers 1 million is definitely bulshit.

        So ok, my bad. I shouldn’t have tried to have a sensical discussion with you.