There was a post relating to this the other day: Some explicitly single-user ActivityPub software to check out
Last time that happened to me, it was because the 'name' I was using was too long (I removed some characters and it worked). There isn't the same limitation for the 'display name' field though.
Well, there's the The 90-9-1 Rule for Participation Inequality in Social Media and Online Communities, which suggests:
Summary: In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.
So whatever number you're looking for, it's 1% of that. Not that subscriber count means much, especially for older communities that have 10's of thousands of subscribers who aren't even using the platform any more.
There are instances like
https://soccer.forum
https://nba.space
https://nfl.community
The communities aren't super-active because the idea is that they're remote-only, but that means they don't get the benefit that comes from local users browsing their local feed.
For 'Action Horror', I've liked The Hunt (2020), Ready or Not, Totally Killer and Strange Darling (technically not a horror, but it's about a serial killer)
I watched Red Rooms recently, and that's French (Canadian), so if anyone asks you what you watched recently, you can say 'Les chambres rouges' and sound all intelligent and stuff.
It's a useful metric. Maybe it's the better one, but personally I'd like to see good data from both.
I had to look at All + New the other day because the Fediverse was being spammed by some twat, but otherwise it's
90 / 0 / 10 (if I look at All, it's All+Hot, not All+New, 'cos that's for masochists)
It's a trade-off, I guess. Admittedly, there's not much benefit the user (though they could be warned via email if their account is going to be de-activated). There is however a benefit to the community, in that it can provide more reliable data to see if it's trending in popularity (a 100 extra users isn't significant if it thinks it has 30k users, but it moves the needle if that number is at a more realistic level).
I recognize most of the users there even in the big communities with over 30k members
Communities with 30k members could really do with pruning the completely inactive ones. It's not like there's any commercial reasons to pretend that places are busier than they actually are.
I think they're all pushing their luck with it, trying to get away with it until any actual legal repercussions happen. I first saw this a while ago with a French newspaper - apparently the majority of newspapers there do it.
Sorry - I meant that it's literally the username they've used. They've used the word '911', like you've used the word 'windyrebel'.
Just matrix.org, like some kind of pleb.
I only have an account so I could join in one room, and that's the server that the room was on, so I decided to keep things simple.