When I have seen the numbers, it always surprised me how varied the patterns are in reality. We tend to think in tribalistic terms. Like all other users follow a similar pattern as self, but that tends to be very wrong. The majority of users are usually not the daily routine type but the once or twice a week, and once or twice a month types.
Intuitively, if you notice the way post responses tend to be somewhat random and unpredictable in terms of voting and replies, this viewership pattern covers that probability. Watch places like reddit in the good times of the past when a repost is made at a time of day that should encompass a fresh audience. The initial momentum from vote responses is often very different. It results in entirely different trajectories overall. Could be other factors there. I have seen similar here, but at much smaller differentials.
The active chart would be really useful if it showed both active posting and active logged in (reading). I can't find anywhere in the websites or the github what "active" means, and while I would guess it means by posts, maybe that's optimistic since any platform anywhere can have accounts that are "dead".
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justdaveisfine@piefed.social · 46 pts · 127d
A cursory glance at Fedidb says its probably around 50k.
I'd bet most users are lurkers.
balderdash9@lemmy.zip · 82 pts · 127d
All the lurkers when reading this comment:
MakingWork@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 127d
How many accounts are active?
How many are bots?
ripcord@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 127d
At least four
rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio · 15 pts · 127d
In addition to Fedidb, there's also Fediverse Observer's statistics page: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 9 pts · 127d
https://fedidb.com/
PlzGibHugs@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 127d
According to the software section, the total is 54k monthly active users.
About 48k on Lemmy and 6k elsewhere.
roofuskit@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 127d
Unfortunately that doesn't easily answer the question. Most of the active users down there are from mastodon.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com · 8 pts · 127d
you can literally slice it by platform. you wanted a specific value for a set of platforms, there they are. it exactly answers their question.
roofuskit@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 127d
OK, since it easily answers the question, what is the answer?
pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 127d
They give you the tool and explain how to use it and yet you took the time to reply instead of doing the work.
roofuskit@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 127d
So since you replied with that instead of the answer...
pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 127d
You’re so witty. And lazy.
roofuskit@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 127d
All these replies arguing that was wrong and yet not one has the supposedly easy to find answer.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 127d
You can narrow it down by platform. https://fedidb.com/software/lemmy
But that doesn't account for piefed users, which I think is around 6k monthly?
j4k3@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 127d
When I have seen the numbers, it always surprised me how varied the patterns are in reality. We tend to think in tribalistic terms. Like all other users follow a similar pattern as self, but that tends to be very wrong. The majority of users are usually not the daily routine type but the once or twice a week, and once or twice a month types.
Intuitively, if you notice the way post responses tend to be somewhat random and unpredictable in terms of voting and replies, this viewership pattern covers that probability. Watch places like reddit in the good times of the past when a repost is made at a time of day that should encompass a fresh audience. The initial momentum from vote responses is often very different. It results in entirely different trajectories overall. Could be other factors there. I have seen similar here, but at much smaller differentials.
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 127d
What are the requirements to be considered active?
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 5 pts · 127d
The active chart would be really useful if it showed both active posting and active logged in (reading). I can't find anywhere in the websites or the github what "active" means, and while I would guess it means by posts, maybe that's optimistic since any platform anywhere can have accounts that are "dead".
Pika@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 127d
Mac@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 127d
More than four