• ikiru
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      101 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!

        • @Eribetra@lemmy.ml
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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

  • @Boforn@lemmy.ml
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    211 year ago

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

    • @Rhabuko@feddit.de
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      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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        141 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)

  • @Ansalong@lemm.ee
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    141 year ago

    Just joined last night! I’m still a little confused with it but I refuse to stay on reddit.

  • Square Singer
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    111 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?

    • @Galaxy@lemm.ee
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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

    • @TeddE@lemmy.world
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      31 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.