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Rant - it's always frustrating to see people considering 38k monthly active users as "no users" (infosec.pub)
submitted 4 months ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Where can you monitor it?

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Comments have been rising but users decreasing, could this be that people have settled to one account or that bots have made more comments?

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Also the wave of speculative users and tourists who were only ever going to just check it out has died down while the actually invested users have settled more in.

It's not about how many people are here, it's about how engaged those who stay are.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 4 months ago

We still need more people here, we cannot support niche communities and as such lose that wreath of knowledge that made Reddit good.

[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

True, I think as long as the comments are not from bots it’s looking fine. And I haven’t noticed anything like that here.

[–] Vespair@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago

I have no doubt there is some small level of bot and other bad actor infiltration here on Lemmy too, but the big difference is there's no incentive for any sort of authority to quietly endorse said bad actors. To me the difference is that while the reddit community hates bots, Reddit loves bots. We are the community here, for the most part, so the dichotomy doesn't exist.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It would be nice to know the ratio of users/bots in X, Reddit, Facebook, ... and the Fediverse. I'm pretty sure we would be surprised.

[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All forums can be used to influence general opinion. If there were more users here I’m sure there would be more pressure trying to get past the current safeguards. What do you think about the bot situation here?

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

I've seen some LLM bots here... its getting weirder...

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Someone mentioned nodeBB in the Reddit thread: https://nodebb.fediverse.observer/stats&months=24

The numbers seem odd, @1@activitypub.space do you think they are accurate?

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 4 months ago

Thank you, that would make sense. Not sure if any of their communities federate with any other Threadiverse instance