this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2023
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From 3000 daily active users on June 1, 2023 to 47500 on June 26, 2023.

According to Lemmy's documentation, "An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame."

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

this keeps getting touted but isn’t it a huge number of bots causing the rise?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Bots have inflated the total users count (around 2.4 million), but they aren't active (yet). So for now active users is a recommended way to measure the fediverse. But once bots start posting, we'll have to find another way to track real user activity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is just really disappointing and gross. Is there any way to not have bots absolutely everywhere?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it's absolutely disappointing and gross. Bots have been actively probing for obscure instances without registration validation and flocking to them. Good thing the top real lemmy instances (like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.ca) have been much more vigilant about that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My understanding is that's causing the rise in accounts (2.5m!) not the active accounts data