On average we get 50 new users a day regularly though we had an unusual dip in those numbers for a week or two, but they recovered. The weekly number you are seeing is not unusual. The graph looks odd though because the bots were down for a short bit and thus caused all the stats to look like they happened in an instant when they came back. But the weekly average is uneffected (though the daily average for that one day will be off).
@Sphinx Ohhh well I guess that depends. Obviously I would like to see the people in our instance be close to eachother and have fun as a community.
But I think part of that comes down to how much you yourself participate. As the moderator the majority of the people I interact with are local to our own instance and I notice on most of the threads I am on most people commenting and interacting are often local to our own instance. So from my expiernce there does seem to be a lot of inter-instance friendship.
@freemo i like your positive answer
@Sphinx Thank you
@freemo yes. i feel like the people in our instance they didn't talk to each other. how do you feel about that?🙂