More realistic than mainstream social media platforms. On Lemmy, the number of active users is measured by posts, comments and votes.
Comment on 600 more active users in the last few days, from 47225 to 42827 in two days
ericjmorey@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
Active accounts is not active users. We shouldn’t lie to ourselves. I wouldn’t be surprised if the number of active users is half of the active account number.
iso@lemy.lol 5 weeks ago
ericjmorey@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
I think that’s a mistake, but also the point is that saying users when you mean accounts is lying to yourself. Users here have multiple accounts, I have 7.
iso@lemy.lol 5 weeks ago
Yes, almost almost all of us have more than one account, but not everyone uses more than one account at the same time. I think these numbers are correct. There should be a margin of deviation of at most 10%.
ericjmorey@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
Over 6 months and over a month, I think most users with multiple accounts use their accounts at least once to post, comment, or vote. So it wouldn’t surprise me if active users to active accounts was 1:2
ripcord@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You think that, on average, half of active users are alts…?
ericjmorey@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
No. I think that there are enough users with multiple accounts including bots that it wouldn’t surprise me if the ratio of active users to active accounts is 1:2.
pennomi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Alts or bots, maybe