• CoderKat@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You gotta stop counting total users. Only active users should be counted. We know there’s utterly massive numbers of bots being created. Plus people have multiple accounts from trying out different instances even if they’ll only use one.

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        1 year ago

        Look, I’ve quit Reddit because fuck spez, and now have confirmation bias that needs answering. Just…let me have this.

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      1 year ago

      True, I have 9 accounts so far between instances… I don’t think I’ll make anymore I’m quite comfortable now, but yeah, I inflated the stats. Sorry…

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      1 year ago

      Yup, came here to say that as well. it’s al bots. The active users graph is much more realistic.

      And I’ve been seeing some…odd looking… comments recently from users at instances known for being mostly bots. Some of these comments really look AI generated, and have a suspicious number of upvotes.

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    1 year ago

    Are any of these accounts bots?

    Or maybe how many of these accounts are bots?

    Are they all bots?

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    1 year ago

    Good to see, but as with all posts like this, it’s important to note that the really important number is “Active Users” That number has gone up significantly as well, just not as fast as number of accounts.

    • JeffCraig@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah this is a good point.

      It took me months to actually start using Lemmy and Mastodon. I would consider myself a tech savvy person and it still took a while getting used too. I think there need to be better tutorials linked on the sign-up pages that help people understand the basic concepts. That would help drive true user acquisition.