Or alternate accounts.
I hear some weirdos made a few of those just to be safe, but I definitely wasn't involved in any of that!
Rhabuko 20 points 3 years ago
Something I realized: If you visit a community on a different server, it doesn't show all subscribers. Like on Feddit.de, it tells me that there are 993 subscribers for this very community. But if I visit lemmy.ml/c/memes it shows that the community has over 18k+ subscribers. Maybe it only shows the subscribers from your own instance? Like 993 People from Feddit.de are subscribed to this community? No idea.
Oh and a lot of bots too.
WhoRoger 9 points 3 years ago
Since you're registered on lemmy.ml, and thus probably viewing everything through that, I think you only see the subscribers on lemmy.ml. Most people and comms are now at lemmy.world.
E.g. "my" !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world comm shows 2.52k subs (up from ~800 2 days ago), but through lemmy.ml it only shows... 38.
burgersc12 6 points 3 years ago path: 0 448494 449319, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 0
squaresinger 13 points 3 years ago
I wonder how accurate these statistics are. Total users are over 1mio now, but users that have been active at least once in the last half year are only ~45k. Which is not bad either, but a far cry from 1mio.
What causes this difference?
squaresinger 2 points 3 years ago
The 6-month-active count usually means "This user has been active at least once in the last 6 months" not "This user has been active for over 6 months".
So if you sign up today and spend today on Lemmy, then you have been active at least once in the last 6 months.
Galaxy 6 points 3 years ago
I know at least at the start some users were confused by the federation process and created 10+ accounts to "subscribe" to other instances plus there have been bots signing up through smaller instances without capcha or email verification so that might explain the discrepency
ImFresh3x 7 points 3 years ago
It quickly gets easier. Try some apps. There’s 10.
c0mbatbag3l 4 points 3 years ago
It's a really good app tbh.
1st 2 points 3 years ago
Come on over to @Fedquestions and ask about whatever isn't making sense!
LoafyLemon 9 points 3 years ago
According to some data, it might be 90% bot accounts due to the lack of account verification.
Zstom6IP 1 point 3 years ago
and i have gotten early to the game, because ive managed to lay claim to the domain "leftism" on .world, so now all leftists will find my community if they are on the largest lemmy site looking for a leftist community. that looks like a win to me, especially since we are growing so fast.
grasib 1 point 3 years ago
It’s 90% bots tho.
memes
@lemmy.ml
57253
14842
4179
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
go to feed...
memes
@lemmy.ml
57253
14842
4179
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
go to feed...
I wonder how many are bots
save