• ikiru
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      121 year ago

      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!

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          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.

      • ЛRMAN0989
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        21 year ago

        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

  • @[email protected]
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    231 year ago

    I honestly wonder where are the users, every very subreddit that I used to follow practically has only 200 or less subscribers.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • ЛRMAN0989
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        181 year ago

        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)

    • @WhoRogerOP
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      91 year ago

      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” [email protected] comm shows 2.52k subs (up from ~800 2 days ago), but through lemmy.ml it only shows… 38.

  • Square Singer
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    131 year ago

    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?

    • @TeddE
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      71 year ago

      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.

      • Square Singer
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        21 year ago

        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.

        • @TeddE
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          11 year ago

          Fair point. Thanks for the info. Then I guess I’m not sure. 😅

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      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

  • jay
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    31 year ago

    let’s go!!’

  • @Zstom6IP
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    11 year ago

    and i have gotten early to the game, because ive managed to lay claim to the domain “leftism” on .world, so now all leftists will find my community if they are on the largest lemmy site looking for a leftist community. that looks like a win to me, especially since we are growing so fast.