FrostBolt

Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time… a long time

It's easy to tell from fediverse observer stats that most of the new users aren't not organic: new accounts is almost a couple orders of magnitude higher than daily active users

What I wonder is: what's the motivation for these bot network attackers? Is it some script kiddie doing it for lulz? A reddit "nationalist"? Russia and China getting an early start on propaganda tools for the newer platforms?

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)

That's great, but I haven't figured out how to do that in the UI. Tried Create New Article, even while subscribed to [email protected] and it won't populate the community dropdown

Strange - I tried going to https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] and even subscribing but I still can't add a post

It doesn't want to autocomplete the community name; see image:

https://i.imgur.com/JVXqIZR.png

Legit

Thanks for the strange, kind golder

Factorio. I had actually become aware of how fun building games could be through Prison Architect a couple years prior. But Factorio took it to a whole other level. Extraordinary freedom and near limitless things to do -- it's distilled, weaponized, dangerously addictive fun for people who have engineering brains

The stakes are obviously much lower; however, the similarities between autocratic regimes and how reddit is acting lately are eerie...

Do they want a devastating, million-view YouTube documentary on the fall of reddit made?
Because they sure seem to be asking for one
and Internet Historian would have a field day with it...