It’s mostly spam users unfortunately, someone posted a script and guide that allowed auto generation of users on any instance that didn’t have captcha enabled. Since then user counts have started shooting up. https://lemmy.cat/post/6401 Captcha is now enabled on some instances but the issue will be continuing on other instances that haven’t heard the message yet. Best we use active users as the main metric to measure growth now.
It’s mostly spam users unfortunately, someone posted a script and guide that allowed auto generation of users on any instance that didn’t have captcha enabled. Since then user counts have started shooting up.
https://lemmy.cat/post/6401
Captcha is now enabled on some instances but the issue will be continuing on other instances that haven’t heard the message yet.
Best we use active users as the main metric to measure growth now.
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