it is possible for a 30 day period if you include traffic from back links, search engines etc 

 yeah maybe cut this in half for a conservative estimate 

 ~700K seems really high... Wow. 

 Hmm. It's potentially higher if a lot of users use VPN and show as from the same IP. I'm guessing a lot of bots would be using VPN so their numbers would not inflate things too much. 

 so this includes non-Damus clients reading from damus relay? 

 yup 

 And for the #tardstr, “unique visitor” = “lurker” here? Does it specifically exclude unique visitors who sign/publish events? 

 this is unique ip connections to the relay and damus.io website 

 I suspect most of these numbers is to the relay though, i don’t know what the exact breakdown is, i don’t have detailed analytics 

 Looks like some bots are running on a VPN with ip rotation… 

 Maybe 🤷‍♂️ 

 Would be interesting to compare to number of signed events per day… or average bandwidth usage per unique ip 

 Impressively stable 🤙 

 Jokes on you, I change IP multiple times a day via VPN. 

 According to our data, it's 1.4M but 10% are feds. 

 I am no lurker for a platform I believe in 

 Active lurker Amethyst user here 🙋‍♀️. We exist, lol. 

 I mostly lurk 

 NSA is trying to DDOS you… 

 An older study but they estimate 90% lurkers
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25885519

A newer one with a range between 45%-90%
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0040162522007582

Would make sense?