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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (5 children)

People had multiple accounts because servers were unstable. Now that stability has increased we're just abandoning the alts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, can confirm. Over the last couple of week I closed 20.000 alts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

the average lemmy user has 3 alts factoid is just statistical error. the average lemmy user has 0 alts. alts georg, who lives on linux.community apparently and has 20,000 alts, is a statistical outlier adn should not be counted

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