That sucks. Looks like they actually went out of their way to create that account a few days after yours.

Try asking @sunaurus@lemm.ee who created it.

Agreed

Its admin @sunaurus@lemm.ee wrote all about it here: https://lemm.ee/post/26

FYI, Lemmy doesn’t count lurkers as active users. Here’s how Lemmy counts active users:

An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame. For site counts, only local users are counted. For community counts, federated users are included.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html

That was probably my post :)

So true. This is straight from Lemmy’s documentation:

An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame. For site counts, only local users are counted. For community counts, federated users are included.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html

Margot, you are the best novelty account.

That’s great! I should play around with subscribing to lemmy with my mastodon account.

So cool that you commented from mastodon.

What’s a number you’re comfortable with?

Yeah, you’re not wrong. Too bad we don’t have unique user data to know for sure.

That’s why I sorted by active users (users who comment or post, not lurkers) instead to get a more accurate picture with the given data. For example, sh.itjust.works has more users than beehaw.org, but it’s ranked below beehaw because of fewer active users.

I think eventually instances with a lot of duplicate accounts will slowly fall out of the top rankings due to inactivity. That’s why I chose to look at just the top 10.

lemmy.one is currently at #13 with 7132 users and 1170 active users.

midwest.social is currently #22 with 1621 accounts and 499 monthly active users.

Funny, I got 9 days based on your oldest post! 😄

When did you create lemm.ee? Thanks for all hard work, by the way.

Kbin adds another 63k.

I can’t recall seeing it in the top 10 within the past month when I started tracking. It only had about 4500 users though.

And it was created only 9 days ago.

I’m truly not being a negative nancy but the last time I checked reddit had 400M user accounts. We should be comparing active user numbers, but either way, this is a drop in the bucket and reddit rightly does not consider Lemmy a threat to its supremacy at this point.

Even when considering accounts across all lemmy instances, it still only combines for a total of 2 million. But overall I’m optimistic about lemmy’s trajectory too.

Huh, I didn’t realize someone else has posted the same article. Thanks for pointing that out.