wow! look at those bots go! go speed racer!
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
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You gotta stop counting total users. Only active users should be counted. We know there's utterly massive numbers of bots being created. Plus people have multiple accounts from trying out different instances even if they'll only use one.
People love vanity metrics, though.
Look, I’ve quit Reddit because fuck spez, and now have confirmation bias that needs answering. Just…let me have this.
But the bot + duplicate account numbers keep going up and I really like exponential growth
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Good to see, but as with all posts like this, it’s important to note that the really important number is “Active Users” That number has gone up significantly as well, just not as fast as number of accounts.
Yeah this is a good point.
It took me months to actually start using Lemmy and Mastodon. I would consider myself a tech savvy person and it still took a while getting used too. I think there need to be better tutorials linked on the sign-up pages that help people understand the basic concepts. That would help drive true user acquisition.
I just started with mastodon. Lemmy I'm pretty understanding at but do you have any people/ hashtags you reccomend following on mastodon to not make the whole place feel so small and repetitive? I'm interested in pretty much anything.
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I'm also a "tech savvy" and still trying to understand how all this works...
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What's considered an "Active User"?
A person who posted/commented in the last 30 days
From the docs: "Lemmy also shows counts of active users for your site, and its communities. These are counted within the last day, week, month, and half year, and are cached on starting up lemmy, and every hour.
An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame. For site counts, only local users are counted. For community counts, federated users are included."
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
I've posted more in the week I joined here than I ever did in Reddit.
So 1 time?
maybe wee_butterfly didn't retain memories from when was a wee_caterpillar
Just checked. Yup, one post. Still helping the fediverse in my book.
Daily active users is a much more reliable statistic due to bots
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Yup, came here to say that as well. it's al bots. The active users graph is much more realistic.
And I've been seeing some...odd looking.... comments recently from users at instances known for being mostly bots. Some of these comments really look AI generated, and have a suspicious number of upvotes.
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How much is bots tho
My spez comic got over 1.5mil views advertising Lemmy yesterday and at least #12 on r/all so I'm hopeful they're not all bots too :P
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More than 12
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There was a pretty big jump in active instances, too!
Active daily user count is about 50k.
First post, post-Reddit 🥴
(Lemmy.world) server:
Hopefully Lemmy continues to grow
Are any of these accounts bots?
Or maybe how many of these accounts are bots?
Are they all bots?
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good to see but hope the bots can be purged at some point.
It shows 50,000 active users per day compared to 2,500,000 total users per day. Most of the difference, presumably, is dormant bot accounts. If they were all activated and started posting one day, they could probably bring the network down.
I'm confused though by the active comments per day being about 100 times the active users per day. Surely users are not commenting 100 times per day on average. Is there something wrong with how the comments are being counted?
The posts count also looks a bit odd, since it means active users are making more than 10 posts a day on average. That seems implausibly high.
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Are these real people or bots? So far lemmy and the fediverse have been great experience I like it and won't go back to reddit. Hope it's real people and we can enjoy this new fresh start!
I'm a new person that joined within the last few days, so they're not all bots, that's for sure.
That’s what a bot would say!!
I am too a human who enjoys conversing with other humanoids. I am new but let me say to you I am very flesh blood fellow person.
beep bop boop...
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