That’s a 2000% increase in 2 weeks! Congratulations all! I’m so proud of what we are building together here!

  • Itty53@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Right? We’ve known for well over a decade that user counts are meaningless and never reflect truth. But if it benefits your guy, oh, let’s celebrate!

    This is a generally BAD thing for Lemmy. Bots are going to kill it and we’re letting them nest.

    • filip@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 years ago

      Well, it usually gives you the upper limit of the number of users and the order of magnitude. If Twitter says they have 330 M monthly active users, that probably means that between 1% and 99% of those are actual users. It’s not a perfect statistic, but it gives you some context.

      • Itty53@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        Say I’m an investor. And I want to invest in a business. And that business tells me “we have 330 million customers” and then come to find out, they only have 3.3 million customers … I’m gonna call that fraud and courts should too.