• NorthWestWind@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    People had multiple accounts because servers were unstable. Now that stability has increased we’re just abandoning the alts.

      • b3nsn0w@pricefield.org
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        1 year ago

        the average lemmy user has 3 alts factoid is just statistical error. the average lemmy user has 0 alts. alts georg, who lives on linux.community apparently and has 20,000 alts, is a statistical outlier adn should not be counted

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, “monthly active users” does not necessarily mean “unique monthly active users”.

      I would much rather see activity statistics like posts+comments or something like that. As long as those are looking good, then new unique users will continue to join gradually.