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.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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I wonder how many people have accidentally signed up for more lemmy instances before they realized that wasn't needed.
I signed up for a few different ones trying to find one with policies that I can agree with.
No reason not to.
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.
No that's literally what you don't need to do. You only need one account, your instance will talk to other instances to bring you content from the whole network, to your one account. That includes the ability to comment on it, and interact with, etc.
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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I'm only on one lemmy but I did sign on both lemmy and kbin before realizing they were connected.
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I think we'll see another spike when the third-party apps are actually shut down.
Be prepared to answer so many questions from newcomers.
A general how-to for lemmy pinned to the top would do wonders.
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Is Boost shutting down?
Definitely, I remember mayayo (Boost's dev) commenting that the update he pushed out recently was the last dance or something.
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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.
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)
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I have a similar thing going. Have 3 accounts, one on lemmy.world, one on kbin.social, and one on beehaw.org.
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why would you think they're all bots?
There was supposedly a post the other day about a bug that would let people creat a ton of accounts using a bot. My understanding is that pretty much the next day the amount of new users increased immensely, so the timing of it so seems a little suspect
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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. :)
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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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.
I think it's just bots. Look at this instance: https://picify.podycust.co.uk/ 7k users, no interactions
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.
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.
@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)
@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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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.
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Long live Lemmy!
Sorry, that was me adding some testing accounts 😔
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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Okay but seriously 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖
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.
Back in my days we visited forums in personal home pages with about 3-4 strangers and we liked it!
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Thoughts on the quality of content thus far?
I don’t have an issue with content personally, just find if a bit confusing at times.
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It's all bots......(probably)
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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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 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.
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