cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/231886
That's a 2000% increase in 2 weeks! Congratulations all! I'm so proud of what we are building together here!
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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The rocketship of registered accounts in the last 4d is indeed all bots attacking small instances where the admins are asleep at the wheel: https://lemm.ee/post/177673
The real registered user count is like 200k-300k I think. What you have to do is what the active user graphs on those pages, then extrapolate the registered graphs with a similar curve, ignoring the sharp rise when bots started flooding in this week.