In just 3 days more than 500.000 new users!! Lemmy for power, we will be legion, expect us!

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      1 year ago

      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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    1 year ago

    Besides from the user count. Does it feel more active lately? That’s a more important question imo.

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      1 year ago

      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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      1 year ago

      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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      1 year ago

      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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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        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