Is there stats somewhere that show how much the fediverse or lemmy have grown over a certain period of time? I find it interesting that though these platforms do seem relatively popular ( especially recently ) That the number of posts in certain communities is still pretty low and the number of comments even on popular threads is rather low.

  • drascus@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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    2 years ago

    So yeah I just want to show what I am talking about something is completely weird. So if you are on a sh.itjust.works instance and view a community outside this one you see this :

    Now here is the same block not logged into an instance:

    See the stats are completely different. This is maddeningly confusing. They need to fix the stats overall. I am not sure that any place collecting stats could be right at this point.

    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, it’s been that way the whole time. What you unfortunately need to do is use a third party tool to find/examine communities. Then join the ones you want and ignore the stats at the top because they’re dead wrong.

      https://lemmyverse.net/communities

      Btw y’all newbies have it easy, back in my day (2 weeks ago), we had to use this one

      https://browse.feddit.de/

      Which is fine but you can see how things are improving rapidly.

      To clarify your concerns, I don’t believe the issue is with the local tracking of stats, but rather with the stats getting uploaded from each server to the rest of the fediverse. If you check our local communities, the stats all seem accurate, at least for me.