• BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m a bit dubious about this stat; it feels similar to the User’s stat being over run by bots.

    Lemmy has about 50,000 users, similar to Kbin, but it’s users are commenting 120 times and also posting 16 times each a day on average? That seems unrealistic.

    For comparison, Kbin (which actually has a slightly larger active user base) is produced about 100,000 comments a day, which is about 2 comments a day and about 0.6 posts per user per day. Interestingly Kbin’s total users and active users are almost identical.

    The threadiverse is certainly doing well, but I think the Lemmy stats continue to be skewed away from reality. I’m wondering if this is not actually all to do with bots, but some fundamental error in the counting/collection? Are the same comments and posts and maybe even the total user count in Lemmy being counted multiple times in the data fed back by the different servers?