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      Or alternate accounts.

      I hear some weirdos made a few of those just to be safe, but I definitely wasn’t involved in any of that!

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          Maybe they want to interact on an instance that’s defederated by/defederates another. That’s the case with Beehaw, although a lemmy.ml account would work just fine for it too.

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        I ended up making 2 accounts; one for beehaw, and now this one for my own instance. Not that beehaw was bad, I just wanted my own

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    I honestly wonder where are the users, every very subreddit that I used to follow practically has only 200 or less subscribers.

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      Something I realized: If you visit a community on a different server, it doesn’t show all subscribers. Like on Feddit.de, it tells me that there are 993 subscribers for this very community. But if I visit lemmy.ml/c/memes it shows that the community has over 18k+ subscribers. Maybe it only shows the subscribers from your own instance? Like 993 People from Feddit.de are subscribed to this community? No idea.

      Oh and a lot of bots too.

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        It only shows the subscribers from your own instance I think; all the communities I’ve subscribed to on my personal instance shows 1 sub (being me)

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          I hope this changes in the future… something like 98(9.1k), meaning the first number is the local instance and in brackets are global.

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    Just joined last night! I’m still a little confused with it but I refuse to stay on reddit.

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    I wonder how accurate these statistics are. Total users are over 1mio now, but users that have been active at least once in the last half year are only ~45k. Which is not bad either, but a far cry from 1mio.

    What causes this difference?

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      I know at least at the start some users were confused by the federation process and created 10+ accounts to “subscribe” to other instances plus there have been bots signing up through smaller instances without capcha or email verification so that might explain the discrepency

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      Fledditors are all new users that by could not be reflected as active for 6+ months due to their accounts being ~2-3 weeks old.

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        The 6-month-active count usually means “This user has been active at least once in the last 6 months” not “This user has been active for over 6 months”.

        So if you sign up today and spend today on Lemmy, then you have been active at least once in the last 6 months.