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Lemmy's active users are up again for the first time since the exodus (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

How do they handle bots? Seems to me this statistic could be heavily inflated. Or do they account for that?

Here is their listing of users per instance, looks a bit sus to me ("Benutzer" means "Users"):

List of users per instance, showing bot instance alien.top at the top by a wide margin

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

It's active users, not total users. I'm not sure on the exact metric, but users need to post, comment, vote or whatever to be counted for this statistic.

[–] Denuath 2 points 9 months ago

I don't think voting does count as an activity for this metric.

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