Are these numbers really true?

3 years ago by WreckingBANG to c/fediverse

Is this Total User Counter true? It seems kind of wrong because the Graph is only at 300k and i cannot imagine that we grew 200k people in the last 4 hours.

The Website Url is: https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse

Illecors 18 points 3 years ago

Total users != active users. People seem to have a thing for multiple accounts

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TrivialBetaState 1 point 3 years ago

This is the answer!

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ImplyingImplications 11 points 3 years ago

i cannot imagine that we grew 200k people in the last 4 hours.

People? No. Bots and alts? Absolutely.

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squirrel 9 points 3 years ago

Wow, 84 tabs

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DoucheAsaurus 5 points 3 years ago

Chrome just gives me a happy face on the tab button now lol

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Generator 3 points 3 years ago

Now that's a lot

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PropaGandalf 1 point 3 years ago

mine does not even show a number anymore. I'm probably over 800 tabs on my tablet.

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Meseta 1 point 3 years ago

Tabs on mobile are really just a count of how many URLs you have opened without clearing your tabs.

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PriorProject 9 points 3 years ago

Click through to the top-growing new instance, lemmy.elest.io

It has 12k registered users, which is like 1/3 or lemmy.world. But it only has 4 users online, or 0.1% of what's online at lemmy.world right now. Parapheum has a similar massive imbalance in registered vs active users.

I haven't seen a satisfying description of what's going on here, but one thing that isn't going on is hundreds of thousands of users registering on ONLY these new instances and then not using Lemmy at all. These are synthetic accounts. Are they malicious? I dunno. They're weird at least. There's an admin listed on the frontpage of each instance, might be worth asking directly.

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PriorProject 6 points 3 years ago

If you filter the modlog by banned accounts you can see hundreds or thousands of accounts getting banned from the same instances: https://lemmy.world/modlog

I also see another commenter posted a link with more context. So yeah, looks like spambots in force.

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tal 1 point 3 years ago

I hope those accounts eventually get purged, or the spambots will eat up neat usernames for no reason.

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PriorProject 1 point 3 years ago

These generally appear to be empty instances, likely chosen because their admins aren't sophisticated or paying attention. Even if tal@spamlemmy.example.com is taken, you can still be tal@kbin.social. I feel like the worst thing that could happen is the spiderman pointing meme with you and a bunch of bots.

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datavoid 1 point 3 years ago

Can't wait for the ads to show up

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xavier666 1 point 3 years ago

https://lemmy.ml/post/1391903

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PriorProject 1 point 3 years ago

Yeah, found this later in the day. It's a good resource that discusses a wave of spambots hitting under-admin'ed instances.

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rm_dash_r_star 5 points 3 years ago

Bots and spammers coming out in force. Wondering how Lemmy and the Fediverse is going to deal with that down the road.

I actually signed up on three different instances trying to find one with the best ping and best administration. I've posted in all three so I'm one user counted as three.

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sunaurus 4 points 3 years ago

More info here: https://lemmy.ml/post/1391903

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RGB 1 point 3 years ago

There was a spam sign up attack recently.

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