unfortunately it seems that people are trusting google search results to be accurate without following links.

as far as I can tell this is a combination of reddit returning the subreddit creation date as the timestamp that will show up in search results yet including images of recent posts, which google will then use as an indicator of “the image exists on this page”. this will lead to a 7 year old subreddit with recent posts showing as the image being present on a 7 year old search result. if people actually follow the link they’ll see it’s just a link to the subreddit and not to an individual post.

are there actually this old posts?

this seems like google + reddit being a shitty combination. i’m seeing fewer results but the two results i get that are 7 years old are just links to the subreddit, not to posts, which is likely throwing off the date on there.

other reverse image searches like tineye don’t show any prior images, so it’s very likely that you’re just fooled by misleading search results.

unless you can produce links or other evidence about actual 7 year old content please correct your comment.

I have already commented the same on the other post.

only mostly accurately for local users, for remote users we obviously can’t see that.

as we have 15 days of log retention for this, i can tell you that we’ve had about 25.7k requests with auth tokens with a success status over the last 15 days, 23.1k over 7d and 17.9k over 24h.

Lemmy currently only counts users that posted, commented or voted as active users, so the difference is just people who voted but didn’t post or comment. there are certainly quite a few more users lurking that aren’t included in these stats.

over the last 24 hours, I can see 4,878 active contributors in our db. 785 unique posters and 4,550 unique commenters.

expanding this to a 30 day view, this gives 20,821 contributors of which 5,648 posted and 19,625 commented.

this is excluding bot accounts.

@tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net fyi

from a quick look it doesn’t seem like the crawler uses any federation, it seems to just iterate over the community list api for each tracked instance, it probably doesn’t have logic to remove entries that no longer exist, considering that they’re still in there.

https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/blob/87d5167c7885cf547b5fe27cac03fc1aeb25ced5/crawler/src/crawl/community.js#L239-L270

there seem to be two separate issues relating to that.

the number at the top includes “all” communities, including those marked as nsfw.

on a quick glance, it seems all the nsfw marked ones are correctly marked as such, in the sense of also being nsfw on lemmy.

there also are a large number of communities missing overall, but at least the number next to the community tab adds up with the number of listed communities when the filter is set to show nsfw communities as well.

there is also either some kind of data corruption going on or there may have been some strange spam communities on lemmy.world in the past, as it shows a bunch of communities with random numbers in the name and display names like oejwfiojwwqpofioqwfiowqiofkwqeifjwefwefoejwfiojwwqpofioqwfiowqiofkwqeifjwefwefoejwfiojwwqpofioqwfiowqiofkwqeifjwefwefoejwfiojwwqpofioqwfiowqiofkwqeifjwefwefoejwfiojwwqpofioqwfiowqiofkwqeifjwefwefoejwfiojwwqpofioqwfiowqiofkwqeifjwefwef which don’t currently exist on lemmy.world.

I’m a member of the Lemmy.World admin team.

Also, anyone can look at the moderation log at https://lemmy.world/modlog

It depends on who you’re trying to message.

Devs: https://join-lemmy.org/contact
Admins of Lemmy.World: see the post that @Deestan@lemmy.world linked already
Admins of piefed.social: https://piefed.social/about
Community moderators: check the community sidebar, it will show the moderator list

Your Lemmy.World account has been unbanned a couple days ago btw.

it’s not just this community getting hit.

it’s mostly !asklemmy@lemmy.ml, !asklemmy@lemmy.world, !opensource@lemmy.ml and !selfhosted@lemmy.world, though some of the latest spam also started arriving in !warframe@dormi.zone