In just 3 days more than 500.000 new users!! Lemmy for power, we will be legion, expect us!

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      1 year ago

      I agree, based on these statistics. Prior to the obvious jump in bot-farmed accounts, there were about 162000 active users with an active user proportion of about 0.186 (somewhere around >29000 active users).

      Now there are 649k lemmy users and an active user proportion of 0.055 (~35600 according to the dashboard). If we assume those 35600 users represent the pre-bot-farming ratio of 0.186, we get 35600/0.186 or about just over 191000.

      That’s still an increase of probably 30k true users, unless the proportion of lurkers have also suddenly drastically increased. I don’t think that’s true, because, pre-bot-farming, when the user base started growing with the Reddit debacle, the proportion of active users increased accordingly. I assume that’s because new users are excited to help grow the community.

      Still, in the past two days alone active users went up by over 5k (15%). Maybe that’ll continue exponentially, and there’ll be 95k (500k total non-bot) users two weeks from now, or maybe it’ll continue linearly and there’ll be 70k (~385k) users.

      I don’t know why I spent so long thinking about this.

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      1 year ago

      Typically only a very small percentage of total users actually interact/comment/vote on content.

      I don’t know if I’ve seen a community/magazine with even 10k subscribers yet - so 1k votes is pretty incredible participation.

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      1 year ago

      The way I’ve heard of things in federated instances, if one instance becomes bot filled and toxic, then other instances will unfederate them. It makes it worthwhile for mods of that instance to run a healthy server.

      There’s a bot running on one instance now that identifies itself as such and is reposting content from reddit with links going to the original article. These sorts of bots I can accept.

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      1 year ago

      It matters because it means which Lemmy is growing exponentially! Ofc some of those users would be bots, but I highly doubt a lot of them.

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            1 year ago

            The problem is that there is no “the staff” as such. The developers can add tools, but if people want bot instances, there will be bot instances. The instance administrators can just not federate with them (which makes the most sense to me) but that will be on an instance by instance basis.

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              1 year ago

              I understand, thank you. Then of that way how possible avoid that Lemmy.world for example would filled with bots.

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                1 year ago

                Well Lemmy.worlsld can defederate with the bit instances. That won’t affect any other instance though.

                As far as bots making accounts on Lemmy.world, they’ve added a captcha which helps a lot.

                I hope we’ll get some improved moderating tools that help eventually as well.

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        1 year ago

        The reason it is likely a lot of bot accounts is someone explained how to exploit a glitch that creates thousands of bot accounts within minutes. The day after they posted the exploit, suddenly Lemmy started growing rapidly. It’s just too coincidental to not be mostly bots

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    1 year ago

    Besides from the user count. Does it feel more active lately? That’s a more important question imo.

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      1 year ago

      To me it feels slightly more active than when I joined 9 days ago. I think this is as much to improved organization regarding communities as much as new users. But the growth hasn’t been incredibly.

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      I guess we’ll have to give time to adapt. The fediverse altogether is having a big shakeup. I guess when people starts to find themselves at home they’ll get to interact more.

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      1 year ago

      Hmmm, what do you mean, that if I’m stay without activity for 2 weeks, then I would be a lurker? Idk the mean of that word sorry. But yeah, it could be.