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[โ€“] Discoslugs@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe those 10 Million new subscribers were just bots.

[โ€“] Roundcat@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

There were definitely "phantom accounts" created out of people's instas who didn't actually sign up.