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@fediverse Fediverse user growth jumped to ~50'000'000 users. What happened ?
The FediDB *Fediverse User Growth* graph shows a significant jump in user count in February. Software distribution is also 81% *other*, and the biggest server is fediverse.hanbitgaram.com with 39 million users ! What happened ?
https://fedidb.org/

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[–] GuyWithLag 20 points 10 months ago (4 children)
  • It may be counting Threads / Bsky participants
  • More likely fediverse broke through to the awareness of bit fleet maintainers....
[–] GuyWithLag 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, it's one smartass that spun up his own system and that reports 39m users.

A different kind of spam, looks like.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Could you please write the same comment, but without the namecalling for what seems to be an honest mistake?

Good Lord, for all the talk about the Fediverse being a nicer place than corporate-controlled social media, comments like yours really show how that is very far from the rule.

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