- cross-posted to:
- lemmy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- lemmy@lemmy.ml
That’s a 2000% increase in 2 weeks! Congratulations all! I’m so proud of what we are building together here!
That’s a 2000% increase in 2 weeks! Congratulations all! I’m so proud of what we are building together here!
Right? We’ve known for well over a decade that user counts are meaningless and never reflect truth. But if it benefits your guy, oh, let’s celebrate!
This is a generally BAD thing for Lemmy. Bots are going to kill it and we’re letting them nest.
Well, it usually gives you the upper limit of the number of users and the order of magnitude. If Twitter says they have 330 M monthly active users, that probably means that between 1% and 99% of those are actual users. It’s not a perfect statistic, but it gives you some context.
Say I’m an investor. And I want to invest in a business. And that business tells me “we have 330 million customers” and then come to find out, they only have 3.3 million customers … I’m gonna call that fraud and courts should too.