It's all bots......(probably)
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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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.
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.
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Diaspora, here, we, come!
I have not heard that name in a long while now. What happened to it?
Same. It's on the Fediverse stats page though. Second largest app after Mastodon.
About 20k are from probably from hexbear, which migrated from their own distant fork of lemmy to the current version, so now they show up in a lot of trackers. They still haven't enabled federation yet though.
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.
Yes, but it can also be argued that the higher the number of users, the higher the chances of insightful discussions taking place. We have a reason to rejoice at this surge as more users generally means more frequent engagement with all the content here, which itself fosters further and deeper engagement.
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I love seeing these charts. If it continues like that, we might hit a million by the 1st of July.
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Hope the trend continues, but easy to quadruple on small numbers.