Lemmy.world grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to 71000 total users at the time of this post (July 1). That’s a 40% growth in about 12 hours!
Welcome new reddit expats!
Lemmy.world grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to 71000 total users at the time of this post (July 1). That’s a 40% growth in about 12 hours!
Welcome new reddit expats!
And yet fediverse observer is showing declining user count, while server count, comments and posts are growing steadily.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Why?
I believe most of the 2million users are bots, since many instances didn’t have much bot protection for signups. This is why active user count is probably a much more reliable metric.
bots account, defederation ?
Bot accounts, yes, but defederation shouldn’t affect the total AFAIK.