You gotta stop counting total users. Only active users should be counted. We know there’s utterly massive numbers of bots being created. Plus people have multiple accounts from trying out different instances even if they’ll only use one.
True. I’ve created at least 4, myself.
But the bot + duplicate account numbers keep going up and I really like exponential growth
People love vanity metrics, though.
Look, I’ve quit Reddit because fuck spez, and now have confirmation bias that needs answering. Just…let me have this.
I have manually counted 20 so far
True, I have 9 accounts so far between instances… I don’t think I’ll make anymore I’m quite comfortable now, but yeah, I inflated the stats. Sorry…
How much is bots tho
My spez comic got over 1.5mil views advertising Lemmy yesterday and at least #12 on r/all so I’m hopeful they’re not all bots too :P
You sir are a legend
Thank you for the compliment.
i’ve only been on the platform for a few days but i’ve noticed a decent uptick in content and unique posts. probably still a lot of bots but with a decent surge of users and people getting a handle on the platform there’s been a good bit of activity.
yea track the monthly active users number. It continues to go up. And on lemmy, to be “active”, a user actually has to post, not just sign in and lurk.
Conversely, kbin doesn’t really track active users, so it’s more or less the same as total users.
More than 12
Yes
hot singles in your area
Oooo, is it you? ;)
Where!?
In your area. They already said.
Can they be in my volume instead?
There was a pretty big jump in active instances, too!
Active daily user count is about 50k.
Good to see, but as with all posts like this, it’s important to note that the really important number is “Active Users” That number has gone up significantly as well, just not as fast as number of accounts.
What’s considered an “Active User”?
A person who posted/commented in the last 30 days
From the docs: "Lemmy also shows counts of active users for your site, and its communities. These are counted within the last day, week, month, and half year, and are cached on starting up lemmy, and every hour.
An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame. For site counts, only local users are counted. For community counts, federated users are included."
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
I’ve posted more in the week I joined here than I ever did in Reddit.
So 1 time?
Just checked. Yup, one post. Still helping the fediverse in my book.
maybe wee_butterfly didn’t retain memories from when was a wee_caterpillar
Yeah this is a good point.
It took me months to actually start using Lemmy and Mastodon. I would consider myself a tech savvy person and it still took a while getting used too. I think there need to be better tutorials linked on the sign-up pages that help people understand the basic concepts. That would help drive true user acquisition.
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If two instances are federated you can access communities on both from either instance.
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Do you need to for some reason? You can subscribe, comment, and post to any community that’s federated with your home instance.
If you’re on Lemmy.ml and the comm you want to sub to us on Lemmy.world, you should be able to find and subscribe in the “communities” section. As long as it’s filtered for all communities and not just your “local” instance.
Ribbits
Subscribe pending is a bug, you are subscribed, it just says pending for some reason. I am still pending on a community that I moderate.
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I’m also a “tech savvy” and still trying to understand how all this works…
+1, just joined the party.
wow! look at those bots go! go speed racer!
good to see but hope the bots can be purged at some point.
I’m enjoying it so much more with the app development. Devs trying to accomplish the goal of instilling the feeling of Apollo for us refugees coming. I just needed useful communities, with posts that people reply to with more and more information. Reddit still defeats lemmy there but I’m hoping it changes a bit.
gas gas gas
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Misinformation, everything is working fine!
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Switch instances
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Yeah, there’s no option to migrate your account yet but it’s in plans I think. And if it’s notnin the plans yet then it will be at some point because a lot of people really want it.
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Look at the graph and the uptick in activity. Note that on June 8, Reddit’s u/iamthatis posted Apollo’s intent to shut down.
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/
Spez gettin sweaty
arms are heavy
Mom’s forgetty
Are these real people or bots? So far lemmy and the fediverse have been great experience I like it and won’t go back to reddit. Hope it’s real people and we can enjoy this new fresh start!
I’m a new person that joined within the last few days, so they’re not all bots, that’s for sure.
That’s what a bot would say!!
I am too a human who enjoys conversing with other humanoids. I am new but let me say to you I am very flesh blood fellow person.
beep bop boop…
I think you can somewhat assure that most of them aren’t bots, since bots get banned fairly quickly by mods of instances and most instances have systems to make sure the bot will not pass through so easily
It shows 50,000 active users per day compared to 2,500,000 total users per day. Most of the difference, presumably, is dormant bot accounts. If they were all activated and started posting one day, they could probably bring the network down.
I’m confused though by the active comments per day being about 100 times the active users per day. Surely users are not commenting 100 times per day on average. Is there something wrong with how the comments are being counted?
The posts count also looks a bit odd, since it means active users are making more than 10 posts a day on average. That seems implausibly high.
“average user posts 100 times per day" actualy just statistical error. average user posts 0 times per day. Feddi Georg, who lives in cave & posts over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
It’s still an average. The mean average precisely. The modal average is most likely zero but the median average is probably greater than zero.
Man, so much has changed. Glad I made the switch to Lemmy.
