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Lemmy's active users are up again for the first time since the exodus (lemmy.ml)
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[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

How do they handle bots? Seems to me this statistic could be heavily inflated. Or do they account for that?

Here is their listing of users per instance, looks a bit sus to me ("Benutzer" means "Users"):

List of users per instance, showing bot instance alien.top at the top by a wide margin

[–] prof@infosec.pub 20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It's active users, not total users. I'm not sure on the exact metric, but users need to post, comment, vote or whatever to be counted for this statistic.

[–] Denuath@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I don't think voting does count as an activity for this metric.

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