this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can you please stop posting users numbers until the bot situation is under control? Putting it like you're doing is misleading, half of them are bots (if not more).

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

When will the bot situation be under control?

I’m not denying the bot situation. These posts are for record keeping, and people in this thread seem aware of the bot situation. We need to get more eyes on this.

You’re welcome to start a conversation about how to solve the bot issue. I’d love to participate.

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Post user activity instead? That has been suggested many times already as a far more reliable metric.

Not knowing when the bots will be under control is NOT a good reason to post misleading info, and you should know it.

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Any particular website that you go to for post user activity?

I'm seeing total user comments quadrupled in the last 2 days alone (from 800k to 4+ million).

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The site you linked has it, first graph is "Average Lemmy Active Users by Day" (hard to miss honestly), after that there's the one you're posting.

there's also this (select active instead of total users): https://the-federation.info/platform/73

and this (check active instead of total): https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Geez I read your comment too fast and thought you meant "post user activity". Thanks for sharing.

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[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tbh it seems to be mostly bots adding to that growth. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see the fediverse grow, but if it's overrun with bots... no one will want to stick around.

[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why do you say it's mostly bots?

[–] Distributed@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There was an exploit released a few days back that could make thousands extremely fast (unsure of the number).The two top user instances at this point have 50k new users a piece, and 10 users active, lol.

[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Ah, stupid that people do stuff like that.

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[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So far it looks like most of the bots are just signing up - not posting anything.

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[–] phamanhvu01@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] ki77erb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got a kick out of knowing he had millions of fuck /u/spez tags. He must know he's a bellend before being rich. His disaster bunker article was absolutely hilarious.

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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welcome all you noobs

(don't hit me, I just got here too)

[–] Prometheus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah, I'm here since we were at 5-10k.... Like, two weeks ago lol

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[–] deadweight753@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just joined. Done with that godforsaken website Reddit. It’s taking a little getting used to, but I know I eventually will get a hang of it. I’m willing to put my time into this.

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[–] bacrack@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Zstom6IP@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Just_A_Bloke70@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] average650@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (13 children)

As has been asked every time, how many are bots?

[–] MicroWave@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah there are some irresponsible instance owners out there letting bots register.

[–] Dawn@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

yeah, the largest one is k6qw, with 52 thousand users, but only 4 users online atm compared to lemmy.world, 42.8 thousand users, 5.63 thousand online

edit: source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

[–] Poiar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly, if these instances don't get their act together, I'd vote on my instance to defederate from it.

I'm usually not one calling for defederating, it seems like a liability, though.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The beauty of the fediverse and the power of ownership is being able to take decisions like these.

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[–] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

It's mostly bots, but so is Reddit. The real question is, how many of these are active participants and contributors who'll generate content and start communities?

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[–] Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lest not forget that Reddit used bots when it went live to drive users there. I don't know what I mean it was just a thought.

[–] ToastyWaffle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hell yeah brother, cheers from Iraq

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[–] Sophos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes. This is the future I want. I hope to help make the lemmyverse a verse worth inhabiting.

[–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Well they have porn so I'm here for it

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[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

There are dozens of us! Baker's dozens! (We come in 13s)

[–] sangel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

once a few of the reddit mobile apps switch users will flood in.

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[–] marswarrior@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Now we just need to move all content from Reddit to here, so that when you research something on google, lemmy would have the answer instead of Reddit.

[–] pannacotta__@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

While this is good, I can't help but feel that the branding of the decentralised social media ecosystem is hurting the growth a little bit. The -verse suffix, imo, is just too tainted from all the cryptobro metaverse scams and really makes this seem like some crypto scam as opposed to an alternative to the current crumbling social media platforms.

Regardless, I hope this ecosystem does take off, as it does seem useful and interesting.

[–] Maganra@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If it means anything, universe and multiverse are the first that come to my mind.

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[–] ignism@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every time I read these posts I can't help but be sceptical: It's bots, bots everywhere.

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[–] Rooki@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

To the moon XD

[–] stusic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I realized yesterday that i haven't been on Reddit for 3 days, but have been on Lemmy every day. It's refreshing.

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[–] ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Can't wait to see this chart come July 1st and the days the follow!

[–] caut_R@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I also made a new account yesterday cause I noticed that it already looked much better than when I last checked. If some of my niche hobby subs move over here I‘d definitely spend more time in the ‘verse.

Performance and design are other big factors I‘m not a fan of right now, I hope someone with expertise in these fields can help the project out, but it‘s already servicable.

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