There are so many bullshit out there about stats! One thing is sure, Mastodon is not sharing bullshit! Websites, socials, extension are always talking about monthly visits. Do you know that this is saying NOTHING! especially how many unique users are using that. This even about Reddit (check the full post)
It's cool to show 9 mio visits, when this is not a real value! This is just a monthly value. Depending on how this get calculated, for websites get visited daily, you need do to /30-31. We could use 15 devices, and we are not calculated as 1. The same obviously happen for those accessing the same page on multiple iOS, MacOS and iPadOS every day. If you visit the webpage multiple times pro day with the same device, you could even get considered as 2 visit (depending if they really respect the 24h or not*). It's the same shit like influencers are saying about amount of followers: on social 1 they have x1, on social 5 they have x5, so they are writing to have x1+x2+x3+x4+x5 followers! Bullshit again.
Remember that even other websites are writing tons of bullshit stats, like those showing real time stats, amount of downloads, etc. Few days ago we shared the story about YouTube livestreaming stats, that were fake too. Last time we showed how much difference there are between stats extracted from different websites related to the amount of subscribers in Reddit.
Plus we need to be honest, every user is acting in different ways. So even saying that there are x user active, doesn't say anything too. It's like Telegram saying that there are 700 mio users active, but the biggest channels have max few mio followers, most below 1 mio. We already shared a full infographic about that, showing of this 700mio is bullshit, compared to real Telegram usage.
It's cool to show 9 mio visits, when this is not a real value! This is just a monthly value. Depending on how this get calculated, for websites get visited daily, you need do to /30-31. We could use 15 devices, and we are not calculated as 1. The same obviously happen for those accessing the same page on multiple iOS, MacOS and iPadOS every day. If you visit the webpage multiple times pro day with the same device, you could even get considered as 2 visit (depending if they really respect the 24h or not*). It's the same shit like influencers are saying about amount of followers: on social 1 they have x1, on social 5 they have x5, so they are writing to have x1+x2+x3+x4+x5 followers! Bullshit again.
Remember that even other websites are writing tons of bullshit stats, like those showing real time stats, amount of downloads, etc. Few days ago we shared the story about YouTube livestreaming stats, that were fake too. Last time we showed how much difference there are between stats extracted from different websites related to the amount of subscribers in Reddit.
Plus we need to be honest, every user is acting in different ways. So even saying that there are x user active, doesn't say anything too. It's like Telegram saying that there are 700 mio users active, but the biggest channels have max few mio followers, most below 1 mio. We already shared a full infographic about that, showing of this 700mio is bullshit, compared to real Telegram usage.