Victor Gnarly@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoAlmost broke 2.5 million daily total users on Lemmy in the last 24 hours.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square145fedilinkarrow-up1375arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1369arrow-down1imageAlmost broke 2.5 million daily total users on Lemmy in the last 24 hours.lemmy.worldVictor Gnarly@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square145fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCoderKat@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·2 years agoYou 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.
minus-squareSteeve@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 years agoBut the bot + duplicate account numbers keep going up and I really like exponential growth
minus-squaredanc4498@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoTrue. I’ve created at least 4, myself.
minus-squaredarkstar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoTrue, 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…
minus-squareKichae@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 years agoPeople love vanity metrics, though.
minus-squarehemmes@vlemmy.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoLook, I’ve quit Reddit because fuck spez, and now have confirmation bias that needs answering. Just…let me have this.
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.
But the bot + duplicate account numbers keep going up and I really like exponential growth
True. I’ve created at least 4, myself.
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.
I have manually counted 20 so far