Daily active users is a much more reliable statistic due to bots
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
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.
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
Just wait until Apollo/RIF/etc actually go dark!
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.
thank you . I like it.
I’m waiting for when I open sync for reddit and see a link to sync for lemmy
First post, post-Reddit 🥴
WE LIVE BABY
I’m enjoying sitting here with popcorn and watching Reddit burn. It’s like viewing someone destroy their company in real-time.
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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.
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…
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.
True. I’ve created at least 4, myself.
Huzzah!
And now that I’m in the beta for Limbo / Liftoff, I’m loving it. The web experience was not great for me on mobile.
Servers still seem slow though. Posting a comment is slow. Loading images is slow. But I’m not going to complain about that when this kind of explosive growth is happening. Keeping things up at all is impressive.
How to become a beta user?
If you’re on iPhone, install TestFlight in the AppStore and after that join through this link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/e6ZEbxuR
Thanks
Yeah I just found out about this project/the fediverse, been looking for several weeks for the best replacement to Reddit and this is by far the most promising. Also, as a self-hosting enthusiast, I’m liking this place more and more by the minute. With any luck increased visibility will continue to push activity & content. Power to the people.
It’ll take a while for the volume to trickle down to the smaller more niche communities, but I have already seen the volume increase tremendously in the large ones. Let’s enjoy the ride.
wow! look at those bots go! go speed racer!
alright, it’s happening
Are any of these accounts bots?
Or maybe how many of these accounts are bots?
Are they all bots?
I’m no bot and joined 6 days ago :)
Welcome friend.
Are any of these accounts bots?
About 2.45 million of the 2.5 are, yes.
As i suspected.
Yes unfortunately but lemmy is still growing
I’m going to link my comment because I don’t want to rewrite it for everyone I reply to where it is relevant
Thanks for the reply!
And I totally agree.
Around 95% accounts are bots. Around 90% if we are positive and assume that a lot of redditors joined since the bot farming started.
Thats seems bad. I know some bots are hepful. But 1 million bots seems like they for something nefariously.
Like trying to keep people on reddit?
I’d go to Facebook first
Or just too generally troll the fediverse.
Yeah, I hope that people farming them are just trolling the fediverse and don’t plan on using them.
Lol trolling is bad. A bot army could make things miserable here.
Trolling in the sense making people freak out while not doing anything with those bots. That’s what I’m hoping for although it’s improbable.
I was thinking more racist transphobic trolling aided by an amry of lurking upvoting bots…but ya know.
If it’s anything like Reddit’s bots, they’ll probably post copy-pasted comments to gain upvotes, then they’ll start spamming advertisements and scams once they have a good amount.
I’m just afraid that these bots are bascially here to sabotage lemmy.
The fediverse is so awesome, there is no way big social media corps can play nice in the long term.
So what are the Bots doing? Who created them and why? I don’t understand the purpose of bots.
Currently nothing but once activated they may start spamming stuff everywhere. Owners can decide what gets upvotes and what gets downvotes which gives you a lot of power on a platform where downvotes/upvotes mean everything.
Still don’t get it - someone makes a comment, bots upvote it so it gets seen by more people. Not really going to change the world.
Sure, but do you like ads that masquerade as posts? Because if you do then you’ll love the delicious taste of Diet Coke, grab one today! (16900 upvotes)
Oh boy, I, for one, love the taste of Diet Coke, the perfect refreshing drink when you and your family watch my new movie, “Barbie”, only in theaters July 21st.
Companies advertising on here through AMA’s should also be prevented because it’s just advertising
They don’t want to change the world. They want to let you know about hot singles in your area
There was a pretty big jump in active instances, too!
Active daily user count is about 50k.
Man, so much has changed. Glad I made the switch to Lemmy.
I barely touch Reddit nowadays, I never thought that’d be possible…
Seems like it ink needs a stupid AF CEO to achieve that!
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.
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 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.
some of us might be lurkers and are just here for reading
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
gas gas gas
I’m gonna step on the gas TONIGHT I’LL FLY
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