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Lemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump? (self.fediverse)

submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave to c/fediverse

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

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[–] TRBoom 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This instance gives a clue maybe?

https://fedidb.org/network/instance/lemmy.wiuf.net

It looks like it's only a day old and it has 11k users. There isn't any content on it either. There are a few instances like that, you can see them here: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy. They all have low MAU, 10k or so users, and low Status Count.

Quite a few are showing about 10k new users in the past day or so. Probably they're small instances without bot protection or instances made to support bots.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Can this be reported to those tech savvy enough to know what to do? Fantastic find. These instances might well be preparing bots for attack.