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Startrek.website have cleared out their spam bots, giving us an indication as to what the true user count is for lemmy (hachyderm.io)
submitted 1 year ago by maegul@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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As it is in the mastodon post.

TLDR - lemmy’s current user count is probably somewhere just above 200k (between June 18 and June 19 numbers). Arguably higher as the larger lemmy instances like lemmy.world are likely to have quicker real growth than a niche instance.

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[-] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

What was the technique for clearing out the bots?

[-] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

rm -rf "bots"

Edit: but for real, does anyone know the answer?

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry for the delay ... here's the conversation thread with the admin:

https://startrek.website/comment/172094

[-] EthicalAI@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I think post/comment frequency is the best metric tbh. Activity matters more than user count.

[-] monobot@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Exactly, I don't care about user count but posts and comments.

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