Found these funky looking stat graphs on fedidb, anyone knows what caused this?
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2025
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I absolutely don't know, but my guess would be spambots or somesuch
Lemmy is a federated system and these stats are self-reported by user maintained systems. Rather than a sudden influx of users (bots or otherwise), a misconfigured system or hiccup in stats collection seems more likely.
Generally, Hanlon's Razor, add applied to computing: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by ~~stupidity~~ user error.
There's a lot of malicious systems out there, but there is little corroborating evidence indicating that we're under attack.
Look at the bottom with server count. Likely something screwed up there, and when those instances were suddenly returned, the user count was added back before being subtracted when they disappeared from the data.
Agreed.