this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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Are they active users?
Nope, that's gotta just be registered users. We're kidding ourselves and don't even have 200k active users
*update: this is just Lemmy users, but OP was talking about all of the fediverse *
Yeah, how many random accounts were made just by this most recent incident of spam across the fediverse? If there was a new account made for each of those spam posts? Not even talking about alt or abandoned accounts. These numbers are gonna be off because of that stuff, right?