• CoderKat@kbin.social
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    You gotta stop counting total users. Only active users should be counted. We know there’s utterly massive numbers of bots being created. Plus people have multiple accounts from trying out different instances even if they’ll only use one.

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      Yup, came here to say that as well. it’s al bots. The active users graph is much more realistic.

      And I’ve been seeing some…odd looking… comments recently from users at instances known for being mostly bots. Some of these comments really look AI generated, and have a suspicious number of upvotes.

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      Yeah theres no way lemmy instances that were struggling to scale 2 weeks ago with a few thousand users active are supporting 2.5mill suddenly

    • Interstellar_1@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The web app wefwef.app is actually a really great alternative to apollo for lemmy! I’m using it right now on android, and while it does feel weird with the ui differences it has gestures and the same interface and generally feels really good.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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      Yeah once the first hits we’re gonna see a huge spike in users. The growth right now is just from people who deleted their accounts in protest on the 12th.

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        I stopped “protesting” once it was obvious that reddint doesn’t care. I’ll obviously stop using the site once they cut me off though.

        • Victor Gnarly@lemmy.worldOP
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          Most never stopped using reddit, but rather used reddit in unsavory ways. Goating all the new rules from blasphemy to nsfw to indefinitely private has had a lot of effect. I mean InterestingAsFuck still has no mods after the admins axed the whole sub. They’re not ready for modless chaos. We won’t see them double back until possible August, then it’ll be too late and the folks will not want to come back. That’s my prediction.

  • OutrageousUmpire@lemmy.world
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    Good to see, but as with all posts like this, it’s important to note that the really important number is “Active Users” That number has gone up significantly as well, just not as fast as number of accounts.

    • JeffCraig@lemmy.world
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      Yeah this is a good point.

      It took me months to actually start using Lemmy and Mastodon. I would consider myself a tech savvy person and it still took a while getting used too. I think there need to be better tutorials linked on the sign-up pages that help people understand the basic concepts. That would help drive true user acquisition.

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        I just started with mastodon. Lemmy I’m pretty understanding at but do you have any people/ hashtags you reccomend following on mastodon to not make the whole place feel so small and repetitive? I’m interested in pretty much anything.

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          Honestly, with Mastodon, I’m at the same place. I signed up with a very specific and small instance and it’s a ghost-town. I don’t have the time to search around for content. I’ll probably start looking for a larger default instance and go from there.

      • (´。• ᵕ •。`)@lemmy.ml
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        A person who posted/commented in the last 30 days

        From the docs: "Lemmy also shows counts of active users for your site, and its communities. These are counted within the last day, week, month, and half year, and are cached on starting up lemmy, and every hour.

        An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame. For site counts, only local users are counted. For community counts, federated users are included."

        https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html

    • kratoz29@lemmy.world
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      I barely touch Reddit nowadays, I never thought that’d be possible…

      Seems like it ink needs a stupid AF CEO to achieve that!

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    Are any of these accounts bots?

    Or maybe how many of these accounts are bots?

    Are they all bots?

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      Around 95% accounts are bots. Around 90% if we are positive and assume that a lot of redditors joined since the bot farming started.

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        So what are the Bots doing? Who created them and why? I don’t understand the purpose of bots.

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          Currently nothing but once activated they may start spamming stuff everywhere. Owners can decide what gets upvotes and what gets downvotes which gives you a lot of power on a platform where downvotes/upvotes mean everything.

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            Still don’t get it - someone makes a comment, bots upvote it so it gets seen by more people. Not really going to change the world.

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              Sure, but do you like ads that masquerade as posts? Because if you do then you’ll love the delicious taste of Diet Coke, grab one today! (16900 upvotes)

              • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
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                Oh boy, I, for one, love the taste of Diet Coke, the perfect refreshing drink when you and your family watch my new movie, “Barbie”, only in theaters July 21st.

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                  Companies advertising on here through AMA’s should also be prevented because it’s just advertising

            • gun@lemmy.ml
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              They don’t want to change the world. They want to let you know about hot singles in your area

            • Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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              Yeah, but this can give you popularity and attention that people crave and it will be pretty damn useful in scamming others too.

        • Zamboniman@lemmy.ca
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          So what are the Bots doing?

          Many of them are doing nothing so far.

          No doubt they are available for sale to some company or individual that wants to buy them wholesale and start spamming or astroturfing.

          Who created them and why?

          People wanting to sell them for $$ mostly. In some cases, people biding their time to use them for mass spam, social misdirection, opinion forming, etc.

          I don’t understand the purpose of bots.

          In social media, a common and concerning use of them is to use them wholesale (comments, posts, and votes) to try and sway mass opinion on some issue to something the person responsible for the bots wants.

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        Thats seems bad. I know some bots are hepful. But 1 million bots seems like they for something nefariously.

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    Huzzah!

    And now that I’m in the beta for Limbo / Liftoff, I’m loving it. The web experience was not great for me on mobile.

    Servers still seem slow though. Posting a comment is slow. Loading images is slow. But I’m not going to complain about that when this kind of explosive growth is happening. Keeping things up at all is impressive.

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    Are these real people or bots? So far lemmy and the fediverse have been great experience I like it and won’t go back to reddit. Hope it’s real people and we can enjoy this new fresh start!