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.

    • joneskinddeleted by creatorEnglish
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      3 years ago

      That’s a really good question to which I don’t have an answer.

      But even if it was the case, there shouldn’t be that much disparities between instances.