I think we'll see another spike when the third-party apps are actually shut down.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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Be prepared to answer so many questions from newcomers.
A general how-to for lemmy pinned to the top would do wonders.
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I wonder how many people have accidentally signed up for more lemmy instances before they realized that wasn't needed.
I signed up for a few different ones trying to find one with policies that I can agree with.
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I'm only on one lemmy but I did sign on both lemmy and kbin before realizing they were connected.
I did....lol
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Calm down folks, these are bot signups: https://lemm.ee/post/177673
The active user-count increased by ~10% over the last 2d while registered user count increased 400%. The registered user growth is absolutely not "real". Now... 10% over 2d is still massive growth... Lemmy IS growing. But it's not doubling every 24h.
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There's no way these are not bot accounts. I heard there's a lot of instances with no sign-up validation that are just being flooded by requests.
I hadn't even heard of Lemmy until a few days ago. Maybe it'll ride the momentum. End of the month there will probably be another influx, considering the reddit changes.
Let's hope so! Some of the communities are a bit empty still. Hopefully it'll change. :)
I heard of Tildes first. Tried it, didn't get it, didn't like the UI and just gave up on it. Saw someone mention Lemmy in a Reddit thread about the blackouts. Googled it, got confused, went to join, got really confused, made accounts on 3 different instances due to aforementioned confusion, started scrolling, haven't stopped in over a week. I like it here
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I love Lemmy, but as others have already said, the vast majority of these signups are likely bots. Pretty spooky.
why would you think they're all bots?
There was supposedly a post the other day about a bug that would let people creat a ton of accounts using a bot. My understanding is that pretty much the next day the amount of new users increased immensely, so the timing of it so seems a little suspect
The number of users increased immensely the next day because Hexbear.net migrated to upstream Lemmy and their users/stats started being tracked. This newest wave of users does seem to me like bots, specially because they are signing up to instances where little to no activity is happening, but who knows.
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Okay but seriously 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖
I think it's just bots. Look at this instance: https://picify.podycust.co.uk/ 7k users, no interactions
Yeah, I'm trying to track where these new accounts are being created, because they're not at top lemmy instances like lemmy.world or beehaw.org, which have validation measures at signup.
I believe most accounts created in the last 48 hours are bot accounts. Here is the list of top 20 fastest growing instances. Looks like 15 out of 20 were created in the last few days and has almost no active users.
@2014MU69 @MicroWave
Lemmy’s first big bot campaign, yay.
Bots only target successful platforms and mastodon has survived many bot campaigns, so I’m not too worried by this. But let’s give a hug to our admins. When all those accounts start spamming, they’ll need to do a lot of mitigation. Especially if the bots come from many different domains. (and also because lemmy moderation tools are not great)
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Long live Lemmy!
I remember the days when everybody flocked to Voat in the midst of the Ellen Pao revolt, and then the site crumpled under its own freaking weight. It's refreshing by comparison to see 360k users flock to Lemmy when the platform struggled to even break over a thousand just three weeks ago.
Spez really screwed the pooch on this one.
I think a better metric would be the number of comments in the Fediverse. Until bots arrive, that would better estimate the growth of actual userbase.
This is insane
Hooray!
I'm quite impressed how quickly the site is stabilizing in spite of continuing to grow so rapidly. I'd say it's 10 times more navigable than when I first signed up, and I've only doubled my competency at interfacing with it.
IIRC, the Lemmy.world administrators had a big post that basically said: "Woops, we were still in debug-mode when we launched".
When they changed the settings to production-mode sometime this weekend (thereby generating far fewer logs on the server's backend), the response speed of the website went into high-speed.
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Remember to donate to your instance and the lemmy project if you have the means!
It's all bots......(probably)
Not that sure. Maybe a big chunk of it are, but there is a lot of people like me coming from reddit that signed yesterday, after doing some research and watching how things were here and on kbin.
Regarding the bots issues, new signups at lemmy.world were closed yesterday for several hours because of attempts to create spammy accounts. So maybe a mix of real accounts and spammy ones.
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bbbut this is just a small moderater strike by a handful of users!
I think a measure of success is how quality the content is. Even if there was only 2 people on here, If the content was good I would visit every day.
Back in my days we visited forums in personal home pages with about 3-4 strangers and we liked it!
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Thoughts on the quality of content thus far?
I don’t have an issue with content personally, just find if a bit confusing at times.
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