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As much as I'd love to think that it's all users, the reality is that it was partially bots.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3200
@ruud did turn on the captcha for registration, so that should prevent it in the future. Unless they become sentient :)
It's possible for some bots to pass captcha actually, which is why Google has reCaptcha now. It's essentially an arms race.
It's going to take a lot of bots to compare to the amount of bots and sock puppets on Reddit. At the very least we're comparing apples to apples by including them in the "members" counts.