MicroWave to FediverseEnglish · 2 years agoLemmy's total users continues to surge to over 1.1 million, up from 740k yesterday!message-squaremessage-square156fedilinkarrow-up11.01Karrow-down128file-text
arrow-up1986arrow-down1message-squareLemmy's total users continues to surge to over 1.1 million, up from 740k yesterday!MicroWave to FediverseEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square156fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDistributedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·2 years agoThere was an exploit released a few days back that could make thousands extremely fast (unsure of the number).The two top user instances at this point have 50k new users a piece, and 10 users active, lol.
minus-squareozymandias117linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoWouldn’t a bot account be more likely to randomly upvote/downvote than a human? Reddit always had a large number of lurkers who only had accounts to select which subs they wanted to see…
minus-squareLostRedditor@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoI also suspect they’re all bots. I joined when users were 10k and I didn’t see any increase in engagement including comments and upvotes.
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There was an exploit released a few days back that could make thousands extremely fast (unsure of the number).The two top user instances at this point have 50k new users a piece, and 10 users active, lol.
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Wouldn’t a bot account be more likely to randomly upvote/downvote than a human?
Reddit always had a large number of lurkers who only had accounts to select which subs they wanted to see…
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I also suspect they’re all bots.
I joined when users were 10k and I didn’t see any increase in engagement including comments and upvotes.