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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] ZephyrXero 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Nope, that's gotta just be registered users. We're kidding ourselves and don't even have 200k active users

*update: this is just Lemmy users, but OP was talking about all of the fediverse *

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[–] ZephyrXero 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Although FediDB claims we have about 418k active

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Nope. That's 418k total. 38k active

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] ZephyrXero 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Shit. I misread. OP's image is for the whole fediverse... 🤦‍♂️

But still...no way that's active users

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah, how many random accounts were made just by this most recent incident of spam across the fediverse? If there was a new account made for each of those spam posts? Not even talking about alt or abandoned accounts. These numbers are gonna be off because of that stuff, right?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Are they bots pretending to be people?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)

On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

[–] NegativeInf 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You think people would do that? Just go on the Internet and tell lies?

[–] KnightontheSun 8 points 10 months ago

Woof! ...er, I mean, no!

[–] SinningStromgald 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like something a cat would say.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yep. But, it can still be pretty ruff, when someone mentions that my posts about squirrels are arf-putting.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are they people pretending to be bots ?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] 9iNez 8 points 10 months ago

Or are they dancer?