It works, those statuses are just a bit misleading

How it works is it subs to a community (from all instances connected to it) until someone from an instance subs and then it unsubs in that instance. In the previous version of the site when it unsubbed it would mark the instance it unsubbed from as completed on that community (although seems to be a bit broken here)

Yeah theyre still by far #1 in terms of MAU even when not taking into account votes while everyone else is so might bump it up by another 10k

Its based on what instances report. So instances on 0.19 or above would factor in votes into that number. Ones that arent would not (so the number has a combination of both cases)

The 2m there is extremely inflated to to bot sign up spam. Back when instances were getting set up in the reddit migration there was some people that started mass signing up accounts on instances with weak security. Fediverse observer doesnt care about any of that and just shows user accounts regardless of what happens on the instance

Fedidb has a much more accurate count at ~ 400k https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy since they exclude these bot spammed instances. They also have a monthly active user count (~ 38k) based on what instances report for that stat

Its from the microblog side but leaking into lemmy a bit since they mass tag everything they find (which includes lemmy communities)

yeah people who have been here for longer might have not accurate stats to only the year since I cant get an actual year range of the things I request

itll pull from your entire lemmy history but for most people that will be within the last year

Looks like lemmy.ml is throwing 403s when I try to access images from it. Handled the case and it should work now

Heres a couple other game dev ones from programming.dev since youve got some of them there
!godot@programming.dev
!pico8@programming.dev
!roguelikedev@programming.dev
!voxel_dev@programming.dev
!game_design@programming.dev
!play_my_game@programming.dev
!destroy_my_game@programming.dev
!inat@programming.dev

edit: !haxe@programming.dev