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[โ€“] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

2M accounts, not users. Most of those are bot accounts that started appearing recently. See the saga of lemmy.ninja for example.

The Federation currently shows Lemmy at 1.6M accounts and falling as admins on other instances continue to mop up bot accounts.

[โ€“] RojaBunny 2 points 2 years ago

The first link isn't working for me - can't tell if it's Lemmy bugging out still or what. Just wanted to let you know because I'm very curious about what happened!

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