https://the-federation.info/platform/73 says for lemmy we have: 1,073,211 Users
It also says that: Last month users: 38897
Which is 2 orders of magnitude of a difference. If you look at the list of instances there ones like https://the-federation.info/node/details/48405 which have 50k users and 10 active last month users.
That means almost all of the 1 milion users are fake users.
I’m seeing people celebrating every 100k users every couple of hours without realizing this.
https://the-federation.info/platform/73
I just checked the numbers. At least 900 000 users are fake. Lots of comments are shady too…
That’s terrible. Fuck it
At least in the mid 850,000 range. And that only counting whole servers obviously dominated by parked accounts.