this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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I don't see the proof in that link, although maybe I'm missing something, it just seems to imply that is the case.
Agreed. It's literally just them saying "there are a lot of new users and theoretically they could all be bots, therefore they are all bots".
Have you made an effort?
I'm apparently dumb. How do I read this?
Captions and applications are not default enabled on an instance. There is no rate limit on the creation of accounts. Many new instances have 0 posts but 10,000 or 20,000+ user accounts. Startrek.website purged something like 20K fake accounts from their instance after enabling registration protections.
Active users will always be the better metric.