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[โ€“] zav@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Found that aswell but the numbers are very inaccurate I feel like. I saw some websites saying there's 1.5m lemmy accounts, others say 2.3m and this one says 300k?

[โ€“] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Those are instances that haven't enabled captchas yet and have been raided by bots. https://lemmyverse.net/ seems to exclude bot instances using its "smart sort" but it gives you only active users.