• @Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    223 hours ago

    Thanks. I was hoping for more than the Alt National Parks Service posts. So, as I see it, the numbers are somewhere between 4 million (the lowest estimate I’ve seen) which I don’t find credible, and 11 million from this post, which I have to admit I doubt. This account is, by necessity, anonymous. I cannot put a tremendous amount of faith in the numbers here, but I suspect they are closer to reality than the 4 million. I guess the truth is that the numbers will never likely be known with any accuracy.

    • @MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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      422 hours ago

      I don’t know who might have credible numbers. Obviously not the government. Altnps has a narrative and I expect they want everyone who came out to feel validated. That doesn’t mean they are lying, but they would have motive and no transparency.

      At the end of the day, it was a lot of people and one can simply visually compare the turnout in a single large city to Trump’s parade and see which way the wind is blowing.