Update: 17th June 23: We are now past 150,000 users.
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Update: We are now past 140,000 users. Growth is still accelerating.
When I checked yesterday it was 91,000 users, itβs now 109,000 and counting up fast!
100,000 π
Stats can be found here: https://the-federation.info/platform/73 - this site has been hugged to death for the moment.
Stats can also be found here: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Oh. That's unfortunate. Why do they need cloud flare again? Are there other instances of Kbin?
Cloudflare can protect against DDOS. In this instance the people are ddosing the server, although not intentionally. There are just a lot of people trying to open the site. So it's not malicious but still an "attack", which cloudflare's service mitigates. In reddit it was called the "reddit hug of death", when small sites kneeled down because a post got popular with their links in it.
And yes, there are, the second largest is fedia.io You can find more here:
https://fedidb.org/software/kbin
Yeah those numbers aren't correct, just fedia.io have more than that https://fedia.io/stats
And here isn't correcteither https://the-federation.info/platform/184
If you add the users from other instances will more than that.
Also when subreddits return public many users will go back to reddit