Amazing growing on Lemmy!!
Amazing growing on Lemmy!!
In just 3 days more than 500.000 new users!! Lemmy for power, we will be legion, expect us!
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Most of them are bots, I estimate around 200k real users
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I agree, based on these statistics. Prior to the obvious jump in bot-farmed accounts, there were about 162000 active users with an active user proportion of about 0.186 (somewhere around >29000 active users).
Now there are 649k lemmy users and an active user proportion of 0.055 (~35600 according to the dashboard). If we assume those 35600 users represent the pre-bot-farming ratio of 0.186, we get 35600/0.186 or about just over 191000.
That's still an increase of probably 30k true users, unless the proportion of lurkers have also suddenly drastically increased. I don't think that's true, because, pre-bot-farming, when the user base started growing with the Reddit debacle, the proportion of active users increased accordingly. I assume that's because new users are excited to help grow the community.
Still, in the past two days alone active users went up by over 5k (15%). Maybe that'll continue exponentially, and there'll be 95k (500k total non-bot) users two weeks from now, or maybe it'll continue linearly and there'll be 70k (~385k) users.
I don't know why I spent so long thinking about this.
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Sad fact. Hope staff solve that thing.
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Besides from the user count. Does it feel more active lately? That's a more important question imo.
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To me it feels slightly more active than when I joined 9 days ago. I think this is as much to improved organization regarding communities as much as new users. But the growth hasn't been incredibly.
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I guess we'll have to give time to adapt. The fediverse altogether is having a big shakeup. I guess when people starts to find themselves at home they'll get to interact more.
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700k total users but the most votes ive seen on a post this week is like 1k
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Typically only a very small percentage of total users actually interact/comment/vote on content.
I don't know if I've seen a community/magazine with even 10k subscribers yet - so 1k votes is pretty incredible participation.
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I saw a post pointing out that one of the Star Trek subs hit 10k, so it's still relatively rare, at least.
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Bots will ruin the fediverse just like they ruin everything else, thats the true inevitability.
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I read a few days ago that lemmy doesn't count lurkers as "users", just accounts that actually do stuff. Is it possible the number is much higher?
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Hmmm, what do you mean, that if I'm stay without activity for 2 weeks, then I would be a lurker? Idk the mean of that word sorry. But yeah, it could be.
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The question is: what percentage of those users are bots? And does it matter?
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It matters because it means which Lemmy is growing exponentially! Ofc some of those users would be bots, but I highly doubt a lot of them.
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The reason it is likely a lot of bot accounts is someone explained how to exploit a glitch that creates thousands of bot accounts within minutes. The day after they posted the exploit, suddenly Lemmy started growing rapidly. It’s just too coincidental to not be mostly bots
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There are instances with over 9k accounts and like 5 posts. There's a lot of bots.
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Going to need de-federate all these instances that are pure bots signing up on them. lemmy.k6qw.com is top user base on https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list and has no actually community's.
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I wish my bank account grew like this graph! Sadly, it’s the reverse
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Hahaha facts lmao 😂😂
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