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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Keep in mind, there's a known issue with bot registration spam so take total user count stat with a big chunk of salt:

https://botsin.space/@threadcount/110581723322900741

Daily active users is a better measure:

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats (site stability is iffy right now, but refresh a couple times and it should load eventually)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The lemmy.dbzer0.com instance admin is working on some code to try to monitor the bot situation:

https://github.com/db0/lemmy-overseer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It’s pied piper all over again. “How many DAUs would you think is bad?” “What if we do a click farm”