• Zamboniman@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Yup, came here to say that as well. it’s al bots. The active users graph is much more realistic.

      And I’ve been seeing some…odd looking… comments recently from users at instances known for being mostly bots. Some of these comments really look AI generated, and have a suspicious number of upvotes.

    • hschen@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Yeah theres no way lemmy instances that were struggling to scale 2 weeks ago with a few thousand users active are supporting 2.5mill suddenly

    • Interstellar_1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      The web app wefwef.app is actually a really great alternative to apollo for lemmy! I’m using it right now on android, and while it does feel weird with the ui differences it has gestures and the same interface and generally feels really good.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah once the first hits we’re gonna see a huge spike in users. The growth right now is just from people who deleted their accounts in protest on the 12th.

      • rDrDr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I stopped “protesting” once it was obvious that reddint doesn’t care. I’ll obviously stop using the site once they cut me off though.

        • Victor Gnarly@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Most never stopped using reddit, but rather used reddit in unsavory ways. Goating all the new rules from blasphemy to nsfw to indefinitely private has had a lot of effect. I mean InterestingAsFuck still has no mods after the admins axed the whole sub. They’re not ready for modless chaos. We won’t see them double back until possible August, then it’ll be too late and the folks will not want to come back. That’s my prediction.

  • realbaconator@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Yeah I just found out about this project/the fediverse, been looking for several weeks for the best replacement to Reddit and this is by far the most promising. Also, as a self-hosting enthusiast, I’m liking this place more and more by the minute. With any luck increased visibility will continue to push activity & content. Power to the people.

    • HoagieBoy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      It’ll take a while for the volume to trickle down to the smaller more niche communities, but I have already seen the volume increase tremendously in the large ones. Let’s enjoy the ride.

    • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Also, as a self-hosting enthusiast

      Self-hosting a Lemmy instance is cheap and easy! I know someone running one off a $5/mo Linode server. You should give it a shot!

  • CoderKat@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    You gotta stop counting total users. Only active users should be counted. We know there’s utterly massive numbers of bots being created. Plus people have multiple accounts from trying out different instances even if they’ll only use one.

  • Discoslugs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Are any of these accounts bots?

    Or maybe how many of these accounts are bots?

    Are they all bots?

    • Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Around 95% accounts are bots. Around 90% if we are positive and assume that a lot of redditors joined since the bot farming started.

      • ramblechat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        So what are the Bots doing? Who created them and why? I don’t understand the purpose of bots.

        • Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Currently nothing but once activated they may start spamming stuff everywhere. Owners can decide what gets upvotes and what gets downvotes which gives you a lot of power on a platform where downvotes/upvotes mean everything.

          • ramblechat@lemmy.worldEnglish
            01·
            1 year ago

            Still don’t get it - someone makes a comment, bots upvote it so it gets seen by more people. Not really going to change the world.

            • gun@lemmy.mlEnglish
              0·
              1 year ago

              They don’t want to change the world. They want to let you know about hot singles in your area

              • paciencia@lemmy.worldEnglish
                0·
                1 year ago

                IM IN YOUR AREA IM IN YOUR AREA I KNOW THE FIRST THREE NUMBERS, IM IN I KNOW THE FIRST THREE NUMBERS, IM IN TEACHIN BITCHES HOW TO SWIM TEACHIN BITCHES HOW TO SWIM

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Huzzah!

    And now that I’m in the beta for Limbo / Liftoff, I’m loving it. The web experience was not great for me on mobile.

    Servers still seem slow though. Posting a comment is slow. Loading images is slow. But I’m not going to complain about that when this kind of explosive growth is happening. Keeping things up at all is impressive.