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New wave of Mastodon users thanks to Elon Musk floating around the idea of charging everyone for Twitter (media.tech.lgbt)
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[-] [email protected] 76 points 2 years ago

What a terrible graph. That "huge" spike is a mere 0.5% increase. That might as well be noise.

Don't believe any graph whose y-axis starts at any value but 0 people.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

It does start at zero. 2000 people per hour

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Indeed the right sides of the graph start at 0. The left side does not.

Note that 2000/h (10^3) aren't all that significant when there's already 14000000 (10^7) users present.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Is a quarter percent increase in users in one day meaningful? I have no idea.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well. It is and it isn't. It's per hour. So per day (24^1) that's 48000 (48*10^3) and per year it's 17532000 (1.7*10^7). That adds up pretty fast, a 100% increase in the full year.

Plus, hey, new friends!

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