Fediverse

Im really enjoying my experience here on Lemmy. Kinda like how I enjoyed reddit in the beginning

Pretty sure it's hexbear joining back into mainline lemmy

There was a post that has code snippet that tells lemmy admins to turn on email verification and captcha.

And then lemmy.world admin turned off signup for a little while to clean up bot accounts.

Then account numbers jumped 84k in one day.

Coincidence? I don't think so.

Hopefully is not an army of bots, but for me that's the most plausible explanation.

meeee

Oh, that must have been me.

I finally got lemmy to reset my password, so plan to use it more. Reddit takeover of subs was ridiculous, the surge is only going to continue

I'm attempting to move on from Reddit. Heard good things about Lemmy. I'm checking things out.

gaining critical mass?

This instance gives a clue maybe?

https://fedidb.org/network/instance/lemmy.wiuf.net

It looks like it's only a day old and it has 11k users. There isn't any content on it either. There are a few instances like that, you can see them here: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy. They all have low MAU, 10k or so users, and low Status Count.

Quite a few are showing about 10k new users in the past day or so. Probably they're small instances without bot protection or instances made to support bots.

Wow, holy shit. Servers must be getting slammed with requests. Good thing there's lots of instances to spread the burden.

Stopped using reddit after 12 years when the blackout began, and kept up with the developments through the tech news. Removing the mods and screwing around with things just because they're mad about a protest was the last straw, so now here I am!

They found put we had snacks. Specifically Bugles. Reddit didn't have any! not even enough for one hand :/

I'm here because I saw a comment mentioning it and I wondered what it was. Then I saw there were threads with hundreds of responses and thought, "hey, this isn't actually dead, maybe it could be fun"