MicroWaveJun 20, 2023

Lemmy's total users continues to soar from 240k yesterday to 360k today! Basically quadrupling in the past 4 days

https://lemmy.world/post/335900

Lemmy's total users continues to soar from 240k yesterday to 360k today! Basically quadrupling in the past 4 days - Lemmy.world

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7 [https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7]

Show threadLeclipse
It's all bots......(probably)
Jun 20, 2023 at 5:11pmWeb
Show threadcuraJun 20, 2023
Yes it is. The top 20 fastest growing instances on https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse could be suffering from bot signup. Bit of a bummer.
Show threadBitOneZero @ .worldJun 20, 2023
10,000 users and only 7 posts and a dozen comments: https://lemmy.podycust.co.uk/communities
Show threadgoomby69Jun 20, 2023

I also signed up yesterday. This is my very first comment/post. This is all a bit new and ngl - slightly intimidating. I'll go back to lurking and trying to get a better feel for the whole thing before I participate more.

Edit: To be fair, I wasn't all that participatory on that OTHER site either. After 12 years, I walked away with (4,528ยท14,039) on my profile. So don't expect much lol.

Show threadkwotJun 20, 2023
It's all good, as long as we have actual people here (I was pretty much a hard lurker on reddit as well lol)
Show threadArgyle13 Jun 20, 2023

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.