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My first lemmy post. Here as a reddit refugee. Looking forward to watching a new community develop as reddit seems intent to go down the road of enshitification. I bailed on FB and Instagram as they enshitified. Reddit looks to be next.
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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thats good
Damn, I'm happy to see it moving so fast.
A million of us, a million of us!
Man, this shit is growing really fast. I would be super interested to see daily active users
I sincerely doubt this is anywhere close to actual usage and pushing flawed metrics like this is going to do more harm than good.
Yesterday the Fediverse Observer list had a couple dozen instances with 20k+ users with no federated communities, single-digit subscriptions to local communities, single digit posts and comments by 1 or 2 accounts.
Yeah, I think active users per time period is probably the better metric, but that is also growing nicely:
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=120
(Though with ~40k obviously much lower)
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Any idea why I can't create a new post? It just spins forever the past 2 days.
It might depend what instance you signed up through/device you use. I was having troubles from desktop with lemmy.world, but they did some tech voodoo magic for the server it's hosted on so it's been mostly smooth all week. It's consistently worked pretty well from the jerboa app for me tho
What language you selected in the drop box? Try with both Undetermined and English.
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Will there be a point when the number of new users will need to be controlled?
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Keep in mind, there's a known issue with bot registration spam so take total user count stat with a big chunk of salt:
https://botsin.space/@threadcount/110581723322900741
Daily active users is a better measure:
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats (site stability is iffy right now, but refresh a couple times and it should load eventually)
The lemmy.dbzer0.com instance admin is working on some code to try to monitor the bot situation:
It's a good thing but also might not be good if hosting costs become unsustainable. I hope we can cope.
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