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Why did the tracked Lemmy user count plummet to pre-blackout lows? (the-federation.info)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It seems to me this is probably a statistical error, Lemmy seems to be alive and well with lots of content flowing in, but the stat counter is showing a massive drop following the huge surge the past 2 days. What am I missing?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Likely defederation issues, from instances crashing and kbin putting up cloudflare

[–] AboveYou5280 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know nearly enough about the infrastructure to have any educated input, but I'm curious if instances upgrading to new servers affects the reported numbers as well? I don't know how user data is being scraped from all instances, but I'd imagine that server changes could affect that. Again, speaking out the ass, but that's my 1 cent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

lemmy.ml (through ipv6) and kbin.social being unreachable might be the culprit, kbin alone has 25k users and lemmy.ml the most users of all the instances.

[–] njinx 1 points 1 year ago

That makes a lot of sense. lemmy.ml has the largest userbase by almost 3x

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Perhaps its due to the fact that both lemmy.world and lemmy.ml have been busy upgrading their servers ?