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45k it is! Many thanks!
keep in mind thats active users. that number is usually a small percentage of unique visitors in any system.
If I recall, the rule of thumb is orders of magnitude. If you have 100 active users, there are probably about 1,000 lurkers, and only 10 substantial users that account for most of your content.
This is the rule from corporate marketing stats, tho, so who knows if the Fedi works the same.
While the user bases of Piefed and Mbin are smaller, they should be included as they federate with Lemmy and interact with our communities.
The same is true of Mastodon but that's a lot harder to count since most Mastodon users are not interacting with Lemmy (since it's a different style of platform - microblog vs link sharing).