OK it doesn't matter how many responses we've had, this thread wins
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I interpreted OP's post as "the number of users reported on the website is wrong".
My point is that the number is accurate - there are that many signups - it's just that a large majority of it are bots. The number is accurate, but it doesn't mean anything.
I was in no way trying to cheer the fact that we have that many users. Like I said, we probably only have 350-400k actual users. It's not that the reporting is wrong, it's the bot sign-ups that are making the number meaningless.
I was unclear in my message, I guess. And you were also very rude.
Remember "you wouldn't download a car"?
Well now you will.
This is how conspiracies are born.
It only works if you touch it with your penis.
Did this happen recently because of all the spez api madness?
Literal shitpost
That's very true. For example, a general "anime" community would be better, until it gets hard to keep track of what's on the first page - after which some series could splinter off.
Its hard to get people to agree on this though. And I think the other extreme of not letting people create communities isn't the best either.
This is a problem for discoverability for the fediverse in general.
Yes, lemmygrad really is that active. Try going to the instance to poke around and you'll see. 600 active means 600 people have posted in the last month - like I said, lemmygrad has been around for much, much longer, so there are users who posted and then fell off, so their posts are part of the 230k comments but they don't make up part of the 600 users.
Also, I don't think you read my comment properly. What I said was that the numbers are not made up, but there are bot attacks on unsecured instances. Read my previous post again please.
Given the number of people here, it might take a while to find the right people. Maybe if there is a community for musicians, you can start talking there and find out who are bassists.