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.

  • 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.