Anyone can generate public keys and there is a lot of spammers. The stats website says: 1,228,201 users 108,384 trusted users It will never be possible to truly get accurate number of real users on Nostr, for multiple reasons.

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It was initially meant to say public keys and not users. It was changed by AI at some point. Thanks for pointing it out so I got to fix it 🤙 Impossible to make such counts, there are private relays and communities that exists as well that can't be counted.