It shows 50,000 active users per day compared to 2,500,000 total users per day. Most of the difference, presumably, is dormant bot accounts. If they were all activated and started posting one day, they could probably bring the network down.

I'm confused though by the active comments per day being about 100 times the active users per day. Surely users are not commenting 100 times per day on average. Is there something wrong with how the comments are being counted?

The posts count also looks a bit odd, since it means active users are making more than 10 posts a day on average. That seems implausibly high.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“average user posts 100 times per day" actualy just statistical error. average user posts 0 times per day. Feddi Georg, who lives in cave & posts over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That and some of the active users are also bots. Lemmit.online is a good example; that community is set up to harvest content from Reddit via RSS and then Bots post it into the community. Other users (including bots) can then cross post it to other parts of the Threadiverse. "Lemmit.Online Bot" has made 20.1k posts in 7 days.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are also hyperactive comment bots out there too.

[–] huge_clock 2 points 1 year ago

It’s still an average. The mean average precisely. The modal average is most likely zero but the median average is probably greater than zero.

[–] amcjv12 11 points 1 year ago

50k active users is still pretty damn good growth. Weren't we at like 40k just a week or so ago?

[–] egeres 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, average comments per day was rising fast but as of today it has suddenly slowed down? I'm guessing there must be some kind of bug in the system

[–] VioletteRei 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy.world doesn't synchronized with other instances. Every comments and posts lemmy.world users do are not seen by the other instances. Why? Lemmy.world is still on 0.17, and the other instances are on 0.18 for the majority

[–] btaf45 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks so much for the explanation. It was very confusing why my posts to startrek were not seen by anybody. I guess I will hold off on lemmy.world for awhile.