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Lemmy's total users continues to soar from 240k yesterday to 360k today! Basically quadrupling in the past 4 days (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7

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[-] Omgarm@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I wonder how many people have accidentally signed up for more lemmy instances before they realized that wasn't needed.

[-] DreamySweet@vlemmy.net 5 points 1 year ago

I signed up for a few different ones trying to find one with policies that I can agree with.

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[-] padjakkels@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I did....lol

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[-] FantasticFox@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I think we'll see another spike when the third-party apps are actually shut down.

[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Be prepared to answer so many questions from newcomers.

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

A general how-to for lemmy pinned to the top would do wonders.

[-] overzeetop@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Today’s noobs are tomorrow’s participants and next months’ experts. Take it as a chance to be awesome to one another.

[-] admin@lemmy.xcoolgroup.com 2 points 1 year ago

Speaking as a noob trying to see if I can respond from another server... Hi!

I spun up an instance for a friend group, to test it out, and while I think no one has a real clue what's going on, it's nice to have something new and positive. And since I or a friend control the server, no worries on the perverse incentives of the internet giants.

So, yeah, hopefully we can learn, and hopefully the ecosystem can grow.

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[-] puck2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Is Boost shutting down?

[-] TrickyCamel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Definetly, I remember mayayo (Boost's dev) commenting that the update he pushed out recently was the last dance or something.

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[-] absquatulate@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] amcjv12@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I love Lemmy, but as others have already said, the vast majority of these signups are likely bots. Pretty spooky.

[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

why would you think they're all bots?

[-] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Odonian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The number of users increased immensely the next day because Hexbear.net migrated to upstream Lemmy and their users/stats started being tracked. This newest wave of users does seem to me like bots, specially because they are signing up to instances where little to no activity is happening, but who knows.

[-] Master@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] MBM@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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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[-] dan96kid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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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[-] house_of_questions@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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. :)

[-] RamesesKnibs@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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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[-] PriorProject@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] dan_the_accountant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Long live Lemmy!

[-] Hedup@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] rist097@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I think it's just bots. Look at this instance: https://picify.podycust.co.uk/ 7k users, no interactions

[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] 2014MU69@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] matthieu_xyz@piaille.fr 2 points 1 year ago

@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)

[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

@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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[-] Clbull@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] V4uban@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This is insane

[-] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Hooray!

[-] Protegee9850@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Okay but seriously 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] dragontamer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[-] morgan_423@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Happy to be here posting with you folks. I have a feeling it's going to be quite the ride in the near future.