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That's a 2000% increase in 2 weeks! Congratulations all! I'm so proud of what we are building together here!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right? We've known for well over a decade that user counts are meaningless and never reflect truth. But if it benefits your guy, oh, let's celebrate!

This is a generally BAD thing for Lemmy. Bots are going to kill it and we're letting them nest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, it usually gives you the upper limit of the number of users and the order of magnitude. If Twitter says they have 330 M monthly active users, that probably means that between 1% and 99% of those are actual users. It's not a perfect statistic, but it gives you some context.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Say I'm an investor. And I want to invest in a business. And that business tells me "we have 330 million customers" and then come to find out, they only have 3.3 million customers .. I'm gonna call that fraud and courts should too.