Fediverse

Be prepared to answer so many questions from newcomers.

That's why I'm here, the third party app I use is about to be shut down.

Is Boost shutting down?

I signed up for a few different ones trying to find one with policies that I can agree with.

I'm only on one lemmy but I did sign on both lemmy and kbin before realizing they were connected.

Bots and multi-accounts. I had one reddit account with no alts. Here I have like 6 accounts because of all the federated / non federated bs.

Yeah, I'm trying to track where these new accounts are being created, because they're not at top lemmy instances like lemmy.world or beehaw.org, which have validation measures at signup.

That instance's real url (at least in the DB) is lemmy.podycust.co.uk. parapheum.com is another one that has a similar situation, they have ~5k new accounts in the past days and very little activity on their instance other than the admins. I have sent messages to the admins of both instances making sure they are aware of the situation...

For fun here are the numbers of their users that show up on my instance (because they have participated somewhere my instance is federated with) compared to beehaw which has about 12.5k users:

lemmy=# select count(*) from person where instance_id = (select id from instance where domain = 'beehaw.org');
 count
-------
  3496
(1 row)

lemmy=# select count(*) from person where instance_id = (select id from instance where domain = 'lemmy.podycust.co.uk');
 count
-------
     6
(1 row)

lemmy=# select count(*) from person where instance_id = (select id from instance where domain = 'parapheum.com');
 count
-------
     3
(1 row)

Seems pretty concerning.

I heard of Tildes first. Tried it, didn't get it, didn't like the UI and just gave up on it. Saw someone mention Lemmy in a Reddit thread about the blackouts. Googled it, got confused, went to join, got really confused, made accounts on 3 different instances due to aforementioned confusion, started scrolling, haven't stopped in over a week. I like it here

IIRC, the Lemmy.world administrators had a big post that basically said: "Woops, we were still in debug-mode when we launched".

When they changed the settings to production-mode sometime this weekend (thereby generating far fewer logs on the server's backend), the response speed of the website went into high-speed.

Not that sure. Maybe a big chunk of it are, but there is a lot of people like me coming from reddit that signed yesterday, after doing some research and watching how things were here and on kbin.

Regarding the bots issues, new signups at lemmy.world were closed yesterday for several hours because of attempts to create spammy accounts. So maybe a mix of real accounts and spammy ones.

Which website are you using to track that? I'm still seeing 364k.

Back in my days we visited forums in personal home pages with about 3-4 strangers and we liked it!