Maybe they want to interact on an instance that’s defederated by/defederates another. That’s the case with Beehaw, although a lemmy.ml account would work just fine for it too.
I honestly wonder where are the users, every subreddit that I used to follow and that have been created here practically has only 200 or less subscribers.
Since you're registered on lemmy.ml, and thus probably viewing everything through that, I think you only see the subscribers on lemmy.ml. Most people and comms are now at lemmy.world.
E.g. "my" !starwarsmemes comm shows 2.52k subs (up from ~800 2 days ago), but through lemmy.ml it only shows... 38.
Something I realized: If you visit a community on a different server, it doesn't show all subscribers. Like on Feddit.de, it tells me that there are 993 subscribers for this very community. But if I visit lemmy.ml/c/memes it shows that the community has over 18k+ subscribers. Maybe it only shows the subscribers from your own instance? Like 993 People from Feddit.de are subscribed to this community? No idea.
I wonder how accurate these statistics are. Total users are over 1mio now, but users that have been active at least once in the last half year are only ~45k. Which is not bad either, but a far cry from 1mio.
The 6-month-active count usually means "This user has been active at least once in the last 6 months" not "This user has been active for over 6 months".
So if you sign up today and spend today on Lemmy, then you have been active at least once in the last 6 months.
I know at least at the start some users were confused by the federation process and created 10+ accounts to "subscribe" to other instances plus there have been bots signing up through smaller instances without capcha or email verification so that might explain the discrepency
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