Oh yeah I looked into that.

• Users-per-month is only the count of users who created lemmy accounts on monyet.cc.
• Registered users includes users who have visited from federated sites. I'm not sure what triggers the "registration" - I suspect just viewing one of our subs is enough, since we aren't seeing any major volume of upvotes or subscriptions
• For our first day we also had a problem with someone running a bot account creation script. I added a captcha and it went away. At some point I'll probably purge these. (Not sure how many)

You can see the federated users in per-community subscription counts btw, e.g. !cafe is in the 80+ users.

Oh! Just to add to that though, our stats are probably actually much larger than are reflected on those stats.

• There's this thing called the 90-9-1 rule - 90-99% of users lurk. I've found this to hold true on r/my and elsewhere.
• Especially on Lemmy where they have to create an account to even upvote - whereas most lurkers on reddit are probably registered.
• Lemmy doesn't seem to report pageview count
• Someone told me they switched over so they could get their news feed back
• So I suspect we may have as many as 3-5k daily active users, but just like on reddit, they lurk

If you're a lurker reading this, please do consider creating an account! There's no email address required. It's motivating for us to see higher signup numbers :)