I knew I shouldn’t have used the word “never”, although I was thinking that only “deleted” accounts would drop the total count. That’s also a good point.

But it still seems unlikely that there will be a LOT or cases where the total number drops by a proportionately large number, unless something really bad happens (or there’s some big initiative at some point to remove inactive or not accounts)

The more important stat - the one that people would be much more likely to be talking about seeing a “decline” in, in cases like this - is “active” users.

Is that total users, or active users?

Total users will never rarely decline.

But the VPN produces money…?

I want to follow Game Grumps

Word.

Do you have a source for that?

causing a horse of reply guys?

The had moved on to legal liability for csam, not hosting costs

It’d be a little more like someone going to a Kinko’s (or whatever like that exists anymore) and using their copiers to copy CSAM.

Hurray!

Also, I don’t believe a significant number of them actually will.

I mean, it’s probably for onlyfans-ish porn. So probably they won’t want to move here.

Also after a week of other posts about this (mostly to other sub’s, but still).

They do…?

You think that, on average, half of active users are alts…?

Not on Jerboa apparently.

That doesn’t wound like a very relevant point at all.

A relevant point would have been something that had a significant impact on the thing we were talking about, which is why I asked.

Is that likely to be a large percentage?

Same here almost exactly.

Although I left after it seemed like he was just having a tremendously hard time coping with the new expectations that came with having a lot of users. At some point he seemed happy to do the admin stuff - responding to reports, etc - but started to become paralyzed on everything else. But also was unable to hand things over to someone else.

I get it, but it wasn’t where I wanted to be anymore.

If it was today I might have moved to mbin instead (which exists for many of the same reasons) but app support on Lemmy was the big draw.

Last time I saw something, I think it was about 300.

I still really enjoy Discuit.

It’s nice.