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[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Daily active users is a much more reliable statistic due to bots


Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] hschen@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

wow! look at those bots go! go speed racer!

[–] OutrageousUmpire@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (8 children)

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 5 points 2 years ago (10 children)

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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[–] MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Just wait until Apollo/RIF/etc actually go dark!

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[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People love vanity metrics, though.

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[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

But the bot + duplicate account numbers keep going up and I really like exponential growth

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[–] CodeMonkeyDance@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

First post, post-Reddit 🥴

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[–] slashzero@hakbox.social 9 points 2 years ago

There was a pretty big jump in active instances, too!

Active daily user count is about 50k.

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)
[–] gnarly@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My spez comic got over 1.5mil views advertising Lemmy yesterday and at least #12 on r/all so I'm hopeful they're not all bots too :P

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[–] caephi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i've only been on the platform for a few days but i've noticed a decent uptick in content and unique posts. probably still a lot of bots but with a decent surge of users and people getting a handle on the platform there's been a good bit of activity.

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[–] JoumanaKayrouz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

More than 12

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[–] Discoslugs@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Are any of these accounts bots?

Or maybe how many of these accounts are bots?

Are they all bots?

[–] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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

[–] ramblechat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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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[–] Discoslugs@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, I hope that people farming them are just trolling the fediverse and don't plan on using them.

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[–] LDClaudius@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Man, so much has changed. Glad I made the switch to Lemmy.

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[–] LokyinN@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] clavismil@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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!

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm a new person that joined within the last few days, so they're not all bots, that's for sure.

[–] RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That’s what a bot would say!!

[–] Limes@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Marxine@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Good human!

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[–] Waitwuhtt@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] maess@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] forkball@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Mom's forgetty

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[–] noodles@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

(Lemmy.world) server:

[–] ohellidk@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

good to see but hope the bots can be purged at some point.

[–] TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Look at the graph and the uptick in activity. Note that on June 8, Reddit's u/iamthatis posted Apollo's intent to shut down.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

[–] SilenceInTheVoid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Apollo user coming over from Reddit

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Very nice to see this for Lemmy.

[–] gnarly@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Agreed, I know there's arguments about bots and such in this thread but this is all good news. If we have these problems, it means we're doing something right.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Alpagu@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How to become a beta user?

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