Lemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump?
Lemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump?
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Probably a significant number of bots tbh.
As much as I'd love to think that it's all users, the reality is that it was partially bots.
@ruud did turn on the captcha for registration, so that should prevent it in the future. Unless they become sentient :)
It's possible for some bots to pass captcha actually, which is why Google has reCaptcha now. It's essentially an arms race.
It's going to take a lot of bots to compare to the amount of bots and sock puppets on Reddit. At the very least we're comparing apples to apples by including them in the "members" counts.
There was also just a huge dump of mods off some big subs, and a post about it on Lemmy with a link...I had been thinking about coming here specifically when I left Reddit, and the mod dump coupled with the link was the perfect opportunity, probably not just for me
Also yay, my first ever comment on my new news platform