Can you please stop posting users numbers until the bot situation is under control? Putting it like you’re doing is misleading, half of them are bots (if not more).
When will the bot situation be under control?
I’m not denying the bot situation. These posts are for record keeping, and people in this thread seem aware of the bot situation. We need to get more eyes on this.
You’re welcome to start a conversation about how to solve the bot issue. I’d love to participate.
Post user activity instead? That has been suggested many times already as a far more reliable metric.
Not knowing when the bots will be under control is NOT a good reason to post misleading info, and you should know it.
Any particular website that you go to for post user activity?
I’m seeing total user comments quadrupled in the last 2 days alone (from 800k to 4+ million).
The site you linked has it, first graph is “Average Lemmy Active Users by Day” (hard to miss honestly), after that there’s the one you’re posting.
there’s also this (select active instead of total users): https://the-federation.info/platform/73
and this (check active instead of total): https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
Geez I read your comment too fast and thought you meant “post user activity”. Thanks for sharing.
Are you a bot microwave?
I’m totally human.
That’s exactly what a bot would say!
Lol, your user name is how I pronounced nginx for years
That’s where I got the name from lol. You’re literally the only person who’s ever pronounced it correct ;)
If you can’t use critical thinking skills to analyze these numbers and understand bots are included, idk what to tell you bro. We can’t censor the world cause of a few dumb people.
With that said user activity, number of posts, number of comments submitted per day would be a nice metric to look at.
If you don’t know what misleading means, idk what to tell you “bro”
We’re all bros here can we please get along?
Me here, fuck u/spez🖕
Fuck him!
I got a kick out of knowing he had millions of fuck /u/spez tags. He must know he’s a bellend before being rich. His disaster bunker article was absolutely hilarious.
If only that article was more popular, it really explains why he’s such a little child regarding the whole API fiasco.
As has been asked every time, how many are bots?
Yeah there are some irresponsible instance owners out there letting bots register.
yeah, the largest one is k6qw, with 52 thousand users, but only 4 users online atm compared to lemmy.world, 42.8 thousand users, 5.63 thousand online
edit: source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Honestly, if these instances don’t get their act together, I’d vote on my instance to defederate from it.
I’m usually not one calling for defederating, it seems like a liability, though.
The beauty of the fediverse and the power of ownership is being able to take decisions like these.
Not me lol
Me either. I am a human person just like all of you!
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
Welcome fellow human. It is great to be a human is it not?
floppy disk drive noises
Now we just need to move all content from Reddit to here, so that when you research something on google, lemmy would have the answer instead of Reddit.
Lest not forget that Reddit used bots when it went live to drive users there. I don’t know what I mean it was just a thought.
Hell yeah brother, cheers from Iraq
So how’s Iraq going?
Bad 😞
Sigh…
I just joined. Done with that godforsaken website Reddit. It’s taking a little getting used to, but I know I eventually will get a hang of it. I’m willing to put my time into this.
Keep in mind, there’s a known issue with bot registration spam so take total user count stat with a big chunk of salt:
https://botsin.space/@threadcount/110581723322900741
Daily active users is a better measure:
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats (site stability is iffy right now, but refresh a couple times and it should load eventually)
There are dozens of us! Baker’s dozens! (We come in 13s)
I also made a new account yesterday cause I noticed that it already looked much better than when I last checked. If some of my niche hobby subs move over here I‘d definitely spend more time in the ‘verse.
Performance and design are other big factors I‘m not a fan of right now, I hope someone with expertise in these fields can help the project out, but it‘s already servicable.
Create your own niche communities then! If others find that it exists, they’ll post to it. If everyone waits for someone else to start the niche community, no one will start the niche community.
What niche hobbies are you waiting on communities for?
Some (more) niche community-driven subs of games I‘m playing like summoner school or ADC mains for instance. I‘m patient enough to wait for them (and other features) to come around but I‘m not the right person to make them.
Fair enough. I suppose for specific video games you’d be best to follow generalized video game communities for now, such as Games or Patient Gamers until later on.
Subscribed! Thanks for the recommendations.
No worries! As a disclaimer that I should’ve mentioned earlier, I am one of the mods for patient gamers, but I felt the suggestion was in line with what you might like, rather than advertisement. There is another patient gamers community on the lemmy.ml instance but it’s far less active. I have no association with the Games community though
Yeah, the mag or whatever it‘s called over here is perfectly in line with my interests, so you guessed right! I‘ll have a look around and see if there‘s any topics I can add to.
Awesome! I appreciate it. We’re a decently sized community but there’s not a whole ton of content being generated over there at the moment, mostly just me and one of our other mods. Once it really gets going though I can see it becoming a fairly active community!
Yeah, I can’t wait until more of my gardening and home improvement people move over here.
Which gardening subs are you part? Also, what are they called on Lemmy?
I realized yesterday that i haven’t been on Reddit for 3 days, but have been on Lemmy every day. It’s refreshing.
Same. I’m barely checking reddit now.
Welcome all you noobs
(don’t hit me, I just got here too)
Yeah, I’m here since we were at 5-10k… Like, two weeks ago lol
Is… is this an OG?
Lol it’s seriously crazy how much less active this place felt a couple of weeks ago. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be someone who was here years ago.
Right!? Even daily it seems like there’s more and more activity. I’m lovin itTM
Indeed. It’s getting better and better. Which means people are posting better quality stuff over here. “He who shall not be named” feels now a little weird when visiting it.
It feels old.
I’m one of them. Hello!
im another one.
And me - hello all.
thats good
Ahh bots, the bane of the internet.
My first lemmy post. Here as a reddit refugee. Looking forward to watching a new community develop as reddit seems intent to go down the road of enshitification. I bailed on FB and Instagram as they enshitified. Reddit looks to be next.
My first as well. Been on Reddit for a long enough to remember the DIGG exodus when they killed themselves. Interesting to see it happen again.
