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Fedidb.org recommends to use active users stats instead of total users stats. (fedidb.org)
submitted 1 year ago by MrCenny to c/fediverse
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Fedidb.org recommends people who view their statistics on their “Threadiverse” tracking page that people should not use graphs and numbers from the total users due to the surge of bot-accounts, and should instead use the monthly active users. This puts the “Threadiverse” at 87,089. Lemmy with 37,197 and Kbin at 44,136. Fedidb.org also shows that the number of accounts is now at 1,75 million, though most of these accounts are probably just bots.

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[–] ward2k 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Out of curiosity how has Kbin got more active users, it seems like the majority of subs jumped ship to Lemmy instances

Similarly the majority of current/planned apps for iOS/android are all targeted towards Lemmy

Edit: I guess a question about how active users are calculated, something like 90% of Reddit users don't comment/post and I'd assume it would be similar here so would feel weird to exclude them though I guess the stats are going to be a bit wacky for a while regardless

[–] MrCenny 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think that perhaps more Reddit users are moving to Kbin because it feels & looks more like Reddit. At least that is the feeling that I get. But in all honesty, no idea.

[–] justhach 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm on Lemmy via Jerboa because that was the first app I found for fediverse browsing on my mobile.

I seems more desktop/laptop users are partial to Kbin, but mobile users drift towards Lemmy from what Ive seen.

[–] TheVampireSaga 6 points 1 year ago

Mostly because Jerboa is relatively easy to use plus with the apparent 9 different apps in development now lol

[–] Batbro 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used Jerboa on mobile also but I use kbin on desktop. Maybe that will change once a real kbin app comes out

[–] ward2k 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is it worth signing up to both? I kind of understand the whole fediverse thing and how instances can still be used regardless of the one you sign up to but I'm still a little clueless about the sign ups

[–] ClassyHatter 2 points 1 year ago

There are currently no Kbin apps because Kbin doesn't have an API yet.

[–] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N 3 points 1 year ago

That's where I started due to ease on the eyes and similar experience at first. Now I'm more comfortable on lemmy. Also, @ward2k i don't know how it factors into active users, but they could just call kbin a home and mostly interact on lemmy communities. No idea how that affects numbers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Very interesting to see that Kbin has more active users. I made a prediction that lemmy would grow more quickly due to the simplistic user interface that is more familiar to reddit, however the ability to incorporate with both lemmy and mastodon is pretty enticing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The problem is that active user accounts also went up as bots started showing up