MicroWave@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoLemmy's daily user activity skyrockets with a 1200% surge so far this month!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1109arrow-down1imageLemmy's daily user activity skyrockets with a 1200% surge so far this month!lemmy.worldMicroWave@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square82fedilinkfile-text
From 3000 daily users to 41000 active daily users! Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=30
minus-squareJenga@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoMuch better statistic than total users due to all the spam bots recently created.
minus-squareFreesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoWhat is the evidence that they are bots and not people who just lurk?
minus-squareUlu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoThere are servers with 6-7 thousands accounts all created almost at the same time and no user activity at all. Did lurkers decide to select some servers to be “lurking-only” servers? Hardly.
minus-squareFreesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThis website recommends a random server for people to join: https://join-lemmy.org/instances. Could that be the reason?
minus-squareUlu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoRandom servers are not always the same, recommendations change in time based on servers activity. Lurkers don’t organize themselves to all go to the same servers.
minus-squareCoeus@coeus.sbslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago50 thousand registered users all at once on an instance with no posts and no activity. Lurkers usually don’t need to make accounts. It’s very suspicious.
minus-squareMicroWave@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYeah I think so too, at least until the bots activate.
Much better statistic than total users due to all the spam bots recently created.
What is the evidence that they are bots and not people who just lurk?
There are servers with 6-7 thousands accounts all created almost at the same time and no user activity at all.
Did lurkers decide to select some servers to be “lurking-only” servers? Hardly.
This website recommends a random server for people to join: https://join-lemmy.org/instances. Could that be the reason?
Random servers are not always the same, recommendations change in time based on servers activity.
Lurkers don’t organize themselves to all go to the same servers.
50 thousand registered users all at once on an instance with no posts and no activity. Lurkers usually don’t need to make accounts. It’s very suspicious.
Yeah I think so too, at least until the bots activate.
Begun, the clone wars have