According to some data, it might be 90% bot accounts due to the lack of account verification.
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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?
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.
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
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.
Hint: its bots
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” !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world comm shows 2.52k subs (up from ~800 2 days ago), but through lemmy.ml it only shows… 38.
I wonder how many are bots
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!
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
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 saw another post that was saying 90%
Just joined last night! I’m still a little confused with it but I refuse to stay on reddit.
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!
It’s a tad confusing at start but you’ll get used to it quickly.
It quickly gets easier. Try some apps. There’s 10.
I’m on Jerboa now, thanks!
It’s a really good app tbh.
