this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2025
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Fedigrow

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Source of images, you can see more crowd sizes up to 180,000:
https://blog.lime.link/visualizing-crowd-sizes/

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

when it's community of one

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's kinda scary, especially if you take the 1000 times four and make it monthly active users like damn

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 weeks ago

They’re all just there… watching…

👁️👁️

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How many of these people are bots? How many are stale accounts or ban evasion accounts?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Active accounts are by definition, active.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

To be fair though, and you know this, some people use multiple accounts on different instances - so any evaluation of subscribers or active users will run into duplicates. Not bots though, or necessarily 'ban evasion'.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Of course, but the proportion of those accounts should be quite low.

For instance, !fedigrow@lemmy.zip has 488 monthly active users, I would be surprised if there are more than 20 alt accounts out of those.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh sure, I wouldn't say it's a big number - and I would assume too that alternative accounts on different instances have different purposes with a different set of community subscriptions and visitations.

[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yep, I made sure Elevator7009@lemmy.zip and Elevator7009@lemmy.world do not have overlapping subs with Elevator7009@ani.social. Although I admit sometimes any of them may weigh in on Fedigrow, only one is actually subbed there, and I do take care to avoid upvoting or downvoting the same post twice.

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

should it indeed

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Woah baby, that's a lot of eyes on the owls!

Just 116 more to 5k subs and over half are MAU.

I'm glad to see so many people still enjoying the content. I thought people would get bored of one person's writing after so long. Heck, I thought I'd be bored of it before this long! 😁

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Close but in each picture you need 90%+ of the people looking at their phone trying not to be perceived

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's interesting to me how the more people there are, the more it looks right. Like, 50 and 100 look smaller than I imagined, but 1000 looks closer to what I imagined it would.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

Nice visualizations!

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

Realising a lot of them are machine based bots: Priceless

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I don't run a community here but I thought about my bluesky followers and this kinda terrified me

[–] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Alright, fuck, I'll post more. Cheers!

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

That's crazy. That's a huge motivator