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[–] muelltonne@feddit.de 48 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This should be human usage - the user survey was done by phone.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ah, ok, 27% -> 19%, an 8% YoY drop, and the numbers were obtained using identical methodologies across multiple years. Yeah, I agree, seems to check out.

Still, there are definitely a shitload more bots than there were before.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are there more bots or does it just seem that way because there are fewer people? I don't ask to be snarky, I'm legitimately curious what the numbers were and are.

[–] muelltonne@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

X seems to have stopped fighting against bots. So there are less people, more bots and those bots won't be banned as quickly as before.