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Judging by the numbers on ml and what I know from various instances, I bet we are peaking at less than 5k active daily users. Of those probably 1/3 - 1/2 are actual daily users and the rest are weekly or monthly users. It is that last set weekly/monthly users that are published as total numbers. This is inflated to our perspective as a regular community. How many times do you see an interaction a week or month after a post you've made? I certainly don't see many. So to me that implies all of these folks are primarily lurkers. If that assumption is mostly correct, we have to split our numbers around the world in order to account for how many people are present at any one time.

If we take all that into consideration, those of us that are on regularly at routine times are likely interacting with the same few hundred people daily. The best we can do is be there for each other for support and ready for anyone new that wishes to join the community.

Honestly, I don't think this is all that different than most social media platforms. Like for a long time the Newpipe app would show a view count they were scraping from the YT website and showing it in the view history. Everything I watch was at like 5-15 views despite never watching anything more than once. I fully expect that was the number YT publishes for each view (every person is 5-15 views). I fully expect all of these social reward metrics like views and votes are fudged and they are all smaller communities than the claims.

If we are so small on Lemmy, that means most of the avid users are watching the All feed. That makes the probability of seeing any given post even lower because if the person was not on within a 6-12-24 hour window of the post, they are unlikely to see it.

I view all of us more like a large collective with mostly superficial communities. I'm happy you're here, and anyone else that wants to be positive and build community.