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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Can you please stop posting users numbers until the bot situation is under control? Putting it like you're doing is misleading, half of them are bots (if not more).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

When will the bot situation be under control?

I’m not denying the bot situation. These posts are for record keeping, and people in this thread seem aware of the bot situation. We need to get more eyes on this.

You’re welcome to start a conversation about how to solve the bot issue. I’d love to participate.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Post user activity instead? That has been suggested many times already as a far more reliable metric.

Not knowing when the bots will be under control is NOT a good reason to post misleading info, and you should know it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Welcome all you noobs

(don't hit me, I just got here too)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

once a few of the reddit mobile apps switch users will flood in.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Now we just need to move all content from Reddit to here, so that when you research something on google, lemmy would have the answer instead of Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

It's mostly bots, but so is Reddit. The real question is, how many of these are active participants and contributors who'll generate content and start communities?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (11 children)

As has been asked every time, how many are bots?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah there are some irresponsible instance owners out there letting bots register.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

yeah, the largest one is k6qw, with 52 thousand users, but only 4 users online atm compared to lemmy.world, 42.8 thousand users, 5.63 thousand online

edit: source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly, if these instances don't get their act together, I'd vote on my instance to defederate from it.

I'm usually not one calling for defederating, it seems like a liability, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The beauty of the fediverse and the power of ownership is being able to take decisions like these.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My thought were the same way about not wanting to call for defederation, but after thinking about it and owning an instance of my own now, I realize that that is the whole point. Instance owners can block entire instances from federating with them. If every instance blocks an instance that is a bad actor then they literally can't federate with anyone and that solves the issue.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I realized yesterday that i haven't been on Reddit for 3 days, but have been on Lemmy every day. It's refreshing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Same. I'm barely checking reddit now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I just joined. Done with that godforsaken website Reddit. It’s taking a little getting used to, but I know I eventually will get a hang of it. I’m willing to put my time into this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes. This is the future I want. I hope to help make the lemmyverse a verse worth inhabiting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Well they have porn so I'm here for it

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My first as well. Been on Reddit for a long enough to remember the DIGG exodus when they killed themselves. Interesting to see it happen again.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There are dozens of us! Baker's dozens! (We come in 13s)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Every time I read these posts I can't help but be sceptical: It's bots, bots everywhere.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Tbh it seems to be mostly bots adding to that growth. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see the fediverse grow, but if it's overrun with bots... no one will want to stick around.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ahh bots, the bane of the internet.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lest not forget that Reddit used bots when it went live to drive users there. I don't know what I mean it was just a thought.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hell yeah brother, cheers from Iraq

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I also made a new account yesterday cause I noticed that it already looked much better than when I last checked. If some of my niche hobby subs move over here I‘d definitely spend more time in the ‘verse.

Performance and design are other big factors I‘m not a fan of right now, I hope someone with expertise in these fields can help the project out, but it‘s already servicable.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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