MicroWave to FediverseEnglish · 3 years agoLemmy's daily user activity skyrockets with a 1200% surge so far this month!message-squaremessage-square116linkfedilinkarrow-up1933arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1922arrow-down1message-squareLemmy's daily user activity skyrockets with a 1200% surge so far this month!MicroWave to FediverseEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square116linkfedilinkfile-text
From 3000 daily users to 41000 active daily users! Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=30
minus-squareFreesoftwareenjoyerlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 years agoWhat is the evidence that they are bots and not people who just lurk?
minus-squareCoeus@coeus.sbslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 years ago50 thousand registered users all at once on an instance with no posts and no activity. Lurkers usually don’t need to make accounts. It’s very suspicious.
minus-squareUlu-Mulu-no-dielinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 years agoThere are servers with 6-7 thousands accounts all created almost at the same time and no user activity at all. Did lurkers decide to select some servers to be “lurking-only” servers? Hardly.
minus-squareFreesoftwareenjoyerlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 years agoThis website recommends a random server for people to join: https://join-lemmy.org/instances. Could that be the reason?
minus-squareUlu-Mulu-no-dielinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 years agoRandom servers are not always the same, recommendations change in time based on servers activity. Lurkers don’t organize themselves to all go to the same servers.
What is the evidence that they are bots and not people who just lurk?
50 thousand registered users all at once on an instance with no posts and no activity. Lurkers usually don’t need to make accounts. It’s very suspicious.
There are servers with 6-7 thousands accounts all created almost at the same time and no user activity at all.
Did lurkers decide to select some servers to be “lurking-only” servers? Hardly.
This website recommends a random server for people to join: https://join-lemmy.org/instances. Could that be the reason?
Random servers are not always the same, recommendations change in time based on servers activity.
Lurkers don’t organize themselves to all go to the same servers.