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MicroWave @lemmy.world

2y ago

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

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

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About 20k are 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.

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 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.

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. :)

Okay but seriously 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖

I love Lemmy, but as others have already said, the vast majority of these signups are likely bots. Pretty spooky.
- Bots and multi-accounts. I had one reddit account with no alts. Here I have like 6 accounts because of all the federated / non federated bs.
  
  Im a newbie, why do you have so many accounts? Isn't it bothersome to switch between them for whatever you are using them for?
  
  I can't imagine being that unlucky with your instances, maybe you're running into bugs or the less intuitive parts of Lemmy (like how links to posts and communities don't work how you'd expect them to)

I wonder how many people have accidentally signed up for more lemmy instances before they realized that wasn't needed.
- I'm still not sure what an instance is but I'll sign up to some more of them if I can get more content.
  
  nope you wont. If you signed up at an instance that hasnt defederated like beehaw then you will be able to see almost anything.

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