Startrek.website have cleared out their spam bots, giving us an indication as to what the true user count is for lemmy
maegul (@maegul@hachyderm.io)
https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/110586181724336484
So startrek.website have cleaned out their spam bots. Looking at the graph of their user counts on #fedidb gives a sense of the time course of the #lemmy spam bot problem. https://fedidb.org/network/instance/startrek.website If you presume the same time course for lemmy as a whole (which fits, see here: https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse), lemmy’s true user count is somewhere between its June 18 and 19 numbers … ~200k, somewhere around Pixelfed/peertube territory. Bigger instances might grow faster. @fediverse@lemmy.ml @fediversenews@venera.social
As it is in the mastodon post.
TLDR - lemmy’s current user count is probably somewhere just above 200k (between June 18 and June 19 numbers). Arguably higher as the larger lemmy instances like lemmy.world are likely to have quicker real growth than a niche instance.