I was trying to figure out how you got those numbers, then I went to https://the-federation.info/platform/73, sorting by number of accounts vs. active accounts. I was astonished how some sites had 30k accounts and 3 active users. Kind of sad seeing the active user ratio going from over 1 in 6 (very active) to 1 in 30 (around where it was before) in the span of 5 days.

PriorProject@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y

The rocketship of registered accounts in the last 4d is indeed all bots attacking small instances where the admins are asleep at the wheel: https://lemm.ee/post/177673

The real registered user count is like 200k-300k I think. What you have to do is what the active user graphs on those pages, then extrapolate the registered graphs with a similar curve, ignoring the sharp rise when bots started flooding in this week.

Steeve@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 3y

Bots and duplicate accounts on multiple instances. Wouldn't be surprised if total users is 1/10th of this

gabriele97@lemmy.g97.top · 5 pts · 3y (6 replies)

And I see this post from my own instance. Did lemmy.ml changed something?

dudeami0@lemmy.dudeami.win · 9 pts · 3y (5 replies)

The posts just started pouring into my instance as well. I think they might of, which is wonderful news.

gabriele97@lemmy.g97.top · 15 pts · 3y (4 replies)

I noticed now that their backend has been updated to the latest RC 0.18 😱😱😱

EDIT: I still have some communities in pending status

dudeami0@lemmy.dudeami.win · 8 pts · 3y (3 replies)

That would explain it, and I see they pushed docker images for 0.18.0-rc6. I might have to give it a spin on my instance, if they are running it must be pretty safe to use.

Edit: As for pending status, if I go click the orange "Subscription pending" button then re-subscribe it joins instantly.

Edit2: larger communities take some time still but you can actively see the posts coming in.

Edit3: The larger communities require a second unsubscribe/subscribe, but all my lemmy.ml communities are now synced! Great news.

gabriele97@lemmy.g97.top · 4 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I'll wait for the final version anyway. I think is enough to pull down the new image and recreate the container I think, never did this before with Lemmy

ewe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Kinda crazy that one of the biggest lemmy instances out there is just rolling with a releases candidate. That said...the issues that 0.18.0 is supposed to address are substantial so getting it rolled out ASAP is a priority and we're still in the phase where if it breaks something, people are pretty okay with it.

Do we have a timeline on the 0.18.0 full drop?

dudeami0@lemmy.dudeami.win · 1 pts · 3y

I just upgraded, was fairly painless overall. Solid code coming from the devs, another good sign.

_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Those are largely bots, let's not conflate them with actual users.

vaguerant@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

Don't sell the bots short, they can probably sell you a pill that helps you conflate things.

ColonelSanders@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y

https://kbin.social/m/lemmy@lemmy.ml/t/76632/Almost-OVER-90-of-the-accounts-on-lemmy-are-now