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Ghostlinkz
@ghostlinkz.eth
FC Top 30 Active Users (March vs April) I don't enjoy saying this, but there's a significant amount of spam and bots inflating the protocol stats. Don't take my word for it, examine the data. Perhaps we should start saying active "accounts" rather than "users."
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rish
@rish
raw activity counts will always be higher for bots, that’s kind of the point of permissions protocols (and some bots can actually be useful). It’s the same on HTTP and SMTP If measuring just absolute activity, “accounts” is the right way to think about it
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Ghostlinkz
@ghostlinkz.eth
There is a difference between useful bots and CIB (coordinated inauthentic behavior) by accounts who are only here to farm memecoins. The incentives are what drive new users/accounts and they also determine their behaviour once they have joined.
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rish
@rish
Ofc that’s why raw activity numbers are account level, not user level
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Ghostlinkz
@ghostlinkz.eth
But no one is sharing user level stats that don't include bots/CIB accounts. I refuse to cheerlead inflated protocol stats, without disclosing the difference between users and accounts.
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rish
@rish
no one is stopping anyone from doing the analysis of sharing user only accounts, feel free to no one’s asking to cheerlead anything you don’t want :)
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Ghostlinkz
@ghostlinkz.eth
This is what im doing with my experiments. Im just not a fan of normalizing the idea that since Twitter and Instagram share inflated stats, it's ok for us to do the same. If we can't stop the bots/CIB, then at least let's be honest about it, and build solutions.
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rish
@rish
The comparison I made was HTTP and SMTP, not Twitter / IG
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