I feel like most posts on Lemmy are irrelevant to me, and they don’t refresh much, is this how Lemmy is like or is this just because I’m a new user?

  • PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works
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    5 hours ago

    Also while there’s a modest amount of people here (I’d reserve small for under a thousand online, personally)

    Honestly, I’d be curious how many active users we actually have. I wouldn’t be suprised if it was fewer than 1000 who contibute (including just voting) when excluding the authoritarian instances and spam.

    Do any instances publish these stats?

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      I don’t know how accurate the stats are, but around the bottom of each instance sidebar they have a breakdown of users per day/week/month. I think that’s supposed to pull not from signed in visits but whether they were active by voting/commenting/posting.

      Excluding the instances you mention, there’s still a sizable amount of people active if those stats are reliable.

      You can see the weekly/monthly stats aggregated in the list view of instances on Lemmyverse:

      https://lemmyverse.net/