• CoderKat@kbin.social
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    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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

    • JeffCraig@lemmy.world
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      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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        I just started with mastodon. Lemmy I’m pretty understanding at but do you have any people/ hashtags you reccomend following on mastodon to not make the whole place feel so small and repetitive? I’m interested in pretty much anything.

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          Honestly, with Mastodon, I’m at the same place. I signed up with a very specific and small instance and it’s a ghost-town. I don’t have the time to search around for content. I’ll probably start looking for a larger default instance and go from there.

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          I use the advanced UI and have various columns pinned with hashtags I’m interested in. Just jumping in and joining convos, commenting on interesting projects I see etc has worked fine for me, got two accounts on two fairly small servers and they both have very active feeds and lots of engagement.

          Pick something you want to talk to people about, and just go for it tbh.

    • Interstellar_1@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The web app wefwef.app is actually a really great alternative to apollo for lemmy! I’m using it right now on android, and while it does feel weird with the ui differences it has gestures and the same interface and generally feels really good.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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      Yeah once the first hits we’re gonna see a huge spike in users. The growth right now is just from people who deleted their accounts in protest on the 12th.

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        I stopped “protesting” once it was obvious that reddint doesn’t care. I’ll obviously stop using the site once they cut me off though.

        • Victor Gnarly@lemmy.worldOP
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          Most never stopped using reddit, but rather used reddit in unsavory ways. Goating all the new rules from blasphemy to nsfw to indefinitely private has had a lot of effect. I mean InterestingAsFuck still has no mods after the admins axed the whole sub. They’re not ready for modless chaos. We won’t see them double back until possible August, then it’ll be too late and the folks will not want to come back. That’s my prediction.

    • Zamboniman@lemmy.ca
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      Yup, came here to say that as well. it’s al bots. The active users graph is much more realistic.

      And I’ve been seeing some…odd looking… comments recently from users at instances known for being mostly bots. Some of these comments really look AI generated, and have a suspicious number of upvotes.

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      Yeah theres no way lemmy instances that were struggling to scale 2 weeks ago with a few thousand users active are supporting 2.5mill suddenly

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    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!

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      I barely touch Reddit nowadays, I never thought that’d be possible…

      Seems like it ink needs a stupid AF CEO to achieve that!

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    Are any of these accounts bots?

    Or maybe how many of these accounts are bots?

    Are they all bots?

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    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.

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      “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

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        That and some of the active users are also bots. Lemmit.online is a good example; that community is set up to harvest content from Reddit via RSS and then Bots post it into the community. Other users (including bots) can then cross post it to other parts of the Threadiverse. “Lemmit.Online Bot” has made 20.1k posts in 7 days.

        I wouldn’t be surprised if there are also hyperactive comment bots out there too.

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        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.

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      50k active users is still pretty damn good growth. Weren’t we at like 40k just a week or so ago?

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      Also, average comments per day was rising fast but as of today it has suddenly slowed down? I’m guessing there must be some kind of bug in the system

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        Lemmy.world doesn’t synchronized with other instances. Every comments and posts lemmy.world users do are not seen by the other instances. Why? Lemmy.world is still on 0.17, and the other instances are on 0.18 for the majority