freamon

It's alright. It didn't sound like that. I don't mind investigating if the bot is misbehaving (and I occasionally get the satisfaction of finding out that it's not)

They come from lemmyverse.net (specifically the JSON file that's provided every 6 hours at data.lemmyverse.net)

If you want to track growth yourself, you'd need to do what the bot does, and download that file every time.

As for your community, are you talking about 'Nowhere else to share'? ('cos that's appeared loads - last Thursday and Friday, for example)

Removed by Mod vs. Deleted by User

(you may have already seen this - my original reply went to the wrong place. Which is another Sync bug incidentally, when using the notification to reply (Android))

If it's something you feel strongly about, then for this reason, and the usual federation reasons, it's probably better to overwrite your content with "[deleted]" or something, rather than delete it.

Removed by Mod vs. Deleted by User (sorry, this reply is in the wrong place)

Lemmy let's you un-delete anything you've deleted, so nothing really gets nuked (it seems to be the way these things work anyway, that it's just a 'deleted' flag that's flipped between true and false).

On the one hand, it's a Lemmy problem - I can see you're comment using the API:

curl --request GET \
     --url 'https://lemmy.world/api/v3/comment?id=8986376' \
     --header 'accept: application/json'

=>
{
  "comment_view": {
    "comment": {
      "id": 8986376,
      "creator_id": 399371,
      "post_id": 13748490,
      "content": "See what i mean? I deleted this!",
      "removed": false,
      "published": "2024-03-31T09:48:22.897008Z",
      "deleted": true,
      "ap_id": "https://lemmy.world/comment/8986376",
      "local": true,
      "path": "0.8986376",
      "distinguished": false,
      "language_id": 37
     ...

But there's also a bug with Sync in that it's not checking the flag if someone try to reply.

(test comment - edit)

No, it's still running. I just got out of the habit of adding posts. I didn't realise it'd been 2 weeks. I'll start it up again in a bit.

"active users" are defined by lemmy: posts + comments + votes

The bot is trying to catch upwards trend in the amount of active users. This tends to be communities that were dead or fairly dead, and then one or two posts got some engagement and spiked the number up.

In terms of absolute active numbers, there's no need for a bot because lemmy can tell you that. The bigger communities tend to swing up and down in terms of activity (cancelling themselves out).

For example, [email protected] had 65 posts this week, but active users ended up pretty much where it was. The table below has 28 entries as the crawler at lemmyverse usually reports 4 times a day, so it's for about 7 days:

Might be some rogue results for lemmy.world for a few days: for some communities there's been a bit of lag (from using the old measurement for active growth to the new one, and/or for the crawler at lemmyverse to pick up on the change)

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