I think we'll see another spike when the third-party apps are actually shut down.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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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 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.
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I did....lol
I'm only on one lemmy but I did sign on both lemmy and kbin before realizing they were connected.
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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 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)
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I wonder if there's a scope to auto delete accounts that are created by never return after x weeks. Or a measure of active daily unique users by IP address...
That instance's real url (at least in the DB) is lemmy.podycust.co.uk. parapheum.com is another one that has a similar situation, they have ~5k new accounts in the past days and very little activity on their instance other than the admins. I have sent messages to the admins of both instances making sure they are aware of the situation...
For fun here are the numbers of their users that show up on my instance (because they have participated somewhere my instance is federated with) compared to beehaw which has about 12.5k users:
lemmy=# select count(*) from person where instance_id = (select id from instance where domain = 'beehaw.org');
count
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3496
(1 row)
lemmy=# select count(*) from person where instance_id = (select id from instance where domain = 'lemmy.podycust.co.uk');
count
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6
(1 row)
lemmy=# select count(*) from person where instance_id = (select id from instance where domain = 'parapheum.com');
count
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3
(1 row)
Seems pretty concerning.
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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 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 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.
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!
I love Lemmy, but as others have already said, the vast majority of these signups are likely bots. Pretty spooky.
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Hooray!
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.
IIRC, the Lemmy.world administrators had a big post that basically said: "Woops, we were still in debug-mode when we launched".
When they changed the settings to production-mode sometime this weekend (thereby generating far fewer logs on the server's backend), the response speed of the website went into high-speed.
It wasn't just logs. Turning debug off let a lot of the federation functions work in the background instead of causing a long pause every time someone posted, voted, etc.
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This is insane
Sorry, that was me adding some testing accounts 😔
bbbut this is just a small moderater strike by a handful of users!
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