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[–] Omgarm@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I wonder how many people have accidentally signed up for more lemmy instances before they realized that wasn't needed.

[–] DreamySweet@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I signed up for a few different ones trying to find one with policies that I can agree with.

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[–] padjakkels@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I did....lol

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[–] FantasticFox@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think we'll see another spike when the third-party apps are actually shut down.

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Be prepared to answer so many questions from newcomers.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

A general how-to for lemmy pinned to the top would do wonders.

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[–] puck2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] TrickyCamel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Definetly, I remember mayayo (Boost's dev) commenting that the update he pushed out recently was the last dance or something.

[–] postscarce@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Can't imagine how Boost would survive when many more successful third-party apps are going under.

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[–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] house_of_questions@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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. :)

[–] RamesesKnibs@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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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Long live Lemmy!

[–] amcjv12@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I love Lemmy, but as others have already said, the vast majority of these signups are likely bots. Pretty spooky.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] rist097@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I think it's just bots. Look at this instance: https://picify.podycust.co.uk/ 7k users, no interactions

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 2014MU69@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] matthieu_xyz@piaille.fr 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@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)

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@2014MU69@lemmy.world - thanks for the info.

@matthieu_xyz@piaille.fr - you think we're about to see many of them defederated?

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[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Hedup@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] mykl@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Sorry, that was me adding some testing accounts 😔

[–] Protegee9850@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Okay but seriously 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖

[–] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago
[–] V4uban@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is insane

[–] morgan_423@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Happy to be here posting with you folks. I have a feeling it's going to be quite the ride in the near future.

[–] Grant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I was in your comments last night with the 240k and was floored. The fact it jumped overnight by ANOTHER 120k is mind-blowing.

This. Is. Awesome.

[–] hardypart@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"May you live in interesting times" is finally not a threat anymore. I love how we're witnessing the rise of a new internet thing.

[–] faltuuser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

It's all bots......(probably)

[–] Argyle13@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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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[–] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

bbbut this is just a small moderater strike by a handful of users!

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