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[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Nope, that's gotta just be registered users. We're kidding ourselves and don't even have 200k active users

*update: this is just Lemmy users, but OP was talking about all of the fediverse *

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[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Although FediDB claims we have about 418k active

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 years ago

Nope. That's 418k total. 38k active

[–] eratic@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Shit. I misread. OP's image is for the whole fediverse... 🤦‍♂️

But still...no way that's active users

[–] mom@nom.mom 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, how many random accounts were made just by this most recent incident of spam across the fediverse? If there was a new account made for each of those spam posts? Not even talking about alt or abandoned accounts. These numbers are gonna be off because of that stuff, right?

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Are they bots pretending to be people?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You think people would do that? Just go on the Internet and tell lies?

[–] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Woof! ...er, I mean, no!

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like something a cat would say.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Yep. But, it can still be pretty ruff, when someone mentions that my posts about squirrels are arf-putting.

[–] THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are they people pretending to be bots ?

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 9 points 2 years ago

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[–] 9iNez@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Or are they dancer?