• Skavau@piefed.social
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    3 months ago

    To be fair though, and you know this, some people use multiple accounts on different instances - so any evaluation of subscribers or active users will run into duplicates. Not bots though, or necessarily ‘ban evasion’.

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      3 months ago

      Of course, but the proportion of those accounts should be quite low.

      For instance, !fedigrow@lemmy.zip has 488 monthly active users, I would be surprised if there are more than 20 alt accounts out of those.

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        3 months ago

        Oh sure, I wouldn’t say it’s a big number - and I would assume too that alternative accounts on different instances have different purposes with a different set of community subscriptions and visitations.

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          3 months ago

          Yep, I made sure Elevator7009@lemmy.zip and Elevator7009@lemmy.world do not have overlapping subs with Elevator7009@ani.social. Although I admit sometimes any of them may weigh in on Fedigrow, only one is actually subbed there, and I do take care to avoid upvoting or downvoting the same post twice.