Active User Growth
[email protected], World News, 29 => 52, 3578 posts (23 this week)
Subscriber Growth
[email protected], Garden Grooves, 89 => 113, 940 posts (412 this week)
[email protected], Church of Thighentology, 304 => 339, 241 posts (35 this week)
[email protected], Electric Vehicles, 293 => 323, 556 posts (62 this week)
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
@[email protected] fyi