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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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[–] s38b35M5 3 points 1 year ago

It likely is spam/bot accounts. Multiple admins of instances with open reg have commented/posted about having to fight bot sign-ups the past few days. The only fix that helped (they said) was to enable captcha. There's a git issue on the lemmy project mentioning that they are removing captcha, so the admins are particularly worried about that...