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[–] ericjmorey@discuss.online 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Active accounts is not active users. We shouldn't lie to ourselves. I wouldn't be surprised if the number of active users is half of the active account number.

[–] iso@lemy.lol 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

More realistic than mainstream social media platforms. On Lemmy, the number of active users is measured by posts, comments and votes.

[–] ericjmorey@discuss.online 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think that's a mistake, but also the point is that saying users when you mean accounts is lying to yourself. Users here have multiple accounts, I have 7.

[–] iso@lemy.lol 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, almost almost all of us have more than one account, but not everyone uses more than one account at the same time. I think these numbers are correct. There should be a margin of deviation of at most 10%.

[–] ericjmorey@discuss.online 5 points 3 months ago

Over 6 months and over a month, I think most users with multiple accounts use their accounts at least once to post, comment, or vote. So it wouldn't surprise me if active users to active accounts was 1:2

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You think that, on average, half of active users are alts...?

[–] ericjmorey@discuss.online 5 points 3 months ago

No. I think that there are enough users with multiple accounts including bots that it wouldn't surprise me if the ratio of active users to active accounts is 1:2.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Alts or bots, maybe