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.

    • dystop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Go on this page, sort by total users and compare to active users.

      Yes, I’ve been using this site for tracking too.

      lemmygrad.ml has 606 active users and 231752 comments

      I’m not sure I understand your point? If you’re saying that the active user : comment ratio for all other instances is off, then I think you got it the wrong way round. lemmygrad was one of the first instances to be developed, way before the reddit exodus, so their number of active users has dropped even as their comment count slowly grew over time.

      • joneskind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        600 active users a month making 230000 comments a month? Those are pretty active indeed

        Most of instances having 40K users but less than 100 actives?

        Compare the data of Lemmy.world with others. There is a common trend of ratio between users/active/posts and comments among them, and then there are those huge instances by users but zero activity?

        I’m sorry but there’s either a huge problem in the way users numbers are aggregated, or those users are just fake.