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Total users != Active users

Kbin has more active users than Lemmy!

Anyone can inflate user counts, but active users are a better signal to determine growth 😉 #fediDB #threadiverse

Threadiverse screenshot showing Kbin with more active users than Lemmy
22 Jun 2023 at 8:48 | Open on mastodon.social
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Richad A

@dansup@mastodon.social Since you bring this up it could be fun to have this represented by a percentage. % of active users over time. :-). Just an idea, nothing more.
30 percent were active over the last week
78 percent were active during this event...

22 Jun 2023 at 8:50 | Open on calckey.social
pettter

@dansup Yeah, @stux among others have warned about a lot of suspected spam users over on Lemmy

22 Jun 2023 at 8:53 | Open on mastodon.acc.umu.se
:spacecore: Huey

@dansup did kbin really grow by over 30,000 users in one day, on the 13th? Quite a bump.

22 Jun 2023 at 9:00 | Open on im-in.space
dansup

@y6nH We believe so yes, we go by the stats that each instance reports, and with the amount of growth Kbin has had in the past week or so, I don't doubt it.

I'm working on being able to detect suspicious growth/stats and adding a label when appropriate.

Luckily, nearly all instances use nodeinfo properly, and do not inflate stats. This could change though, so it will take some clever deduction to keep our stats as accurate as possible.

22 Jun 2023 at 9:08 | Open on mastodon.social
Chris Drumgoole

@dansup IMHO, kbin’s interface is a little more intuitive.

22 Jun 2023 at 9:46 | Open on cdrum.social
DELETED

@dansup Problem is that Kbin is a PAIN to use. Lemmy is FAR better in function and appearance.

I made a Kbin account but quickly ran into issues trying to create a new community and the only way to "fix" it was to delete the account... Not ideal.

22 Jun 2023 at 12:02 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
vuñuelo

@dansup Hasn't Ernest said Kbin doesn't really keep track of active users? I don't think they are equivalent metrics either.

22 Jun 2023 at 14:14 | Open on anticapitalist.party
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