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Rant - it's always frustrating to see people considering 38k monthly active users as "no users" (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

-sigh-

Create an instance that’s nothing but tons of bots bullshitting eachother and include them in the numbers. You know, the ways all the other companies lie about their user count.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

yeah, really shows the absurdity of the metric of "user numbers" xD

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

you'd think the companies buying ad-space would catch onto that...eventually, but apparently not? guess in a bull market $ is infinite anyway, so who really cares just pump pump pump

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The stock goes up when you buy ads. That's all that matters.