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@fediverse Fediverse user growth jumped to ~50'000'000 users. What happened ?
The FediDB *Fediverse User Growth* graph shows a significant jump in user count in February. Software distribution is also 81% *other*, and the biggest server is fediverse.hanbitgaram.com with 39 million users ! What happened ?
https://fedidb.org/

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[–] fr0g@feddit.de 180 points 8 months ago (4 children)

There's also been huge waves of spam account attacks on Mastodon recently.

[–] halm@leminal.space 25 points 8 months ago

I hope that's not the entire answer but it has to add some numbers to the jump.

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yep, today I have seen a dozen or more instances of some account from some obscure server making their only post with just a picture of a spam can.

Those are only the ones that go through, I am sure there is probably a lot more than the ones I saw.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

And if you go to the website that the picture is from, the page is a string of text that isn't in a spoken language or a common programming language. So the image is to make you think that it just a silly picture, when it is actually probably something pretty nefarious.

Yesterday, they seemed to always tag a warframe community.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 16 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it's bleeding over to lemmy too when you browse by new.

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 13 points 8 months ago

Yup its on lemmy aswell.