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Lemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7

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[-] ShadedCosmos@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

A lot of us haven’t been able to create accounts due to high activity. It looks like account creation requests have finally started going through.

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[-] atocci@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

This has to have something to do with the newly discovered API exploit to rapidly create accounts without any limits, right? Instances without captcha or email verification are vulnerable still, AFAIK.

[-] rakara@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I'm attempting to move on from Reddit. Heard good things about Lemmy. I'm checking things out.

[-] metis_seeker@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hmm, it seems odd that the number of total user's has increased so much without the number of active user's increasing as well. Unless people are having trouble logging in?

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[-] foiledAgain@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

gaining critical mass?

[-] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Wow, holy shit. Servers must be getting slammed with requests. Good thing there's lots of instances to spread the burden.

[-] Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Remember this is CEO proof as long the servers can maintain, donate to your homebase server if you can.

[-] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

They found put we had snacks. Specifically Bugles. Reddit didn't have any! not even enough for one hand :/

[-] TRBoom@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

This instance gives a clue maybe?

https://fedidb.org/network/instance/lemmy.wiuf.net

It looks like it's only a day old and it has 11k users. There isn't any content on it either. There are a few instances like that, you can see them here: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy. They all have low MAU, 10k or so users, and low Status Count.

Quite a few are showing about 10k new users in the past day or so. Probably they're small instances without bot protection or instances made to support bots.

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[-] necrxfagivs@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hopefully is not an army of bots, but for me that's the most plausible explanation.

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[-] TechnoNinja@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hello and I'm with you too. I wish you success in developing Lemmy.

[-] Sensath@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I'm going back to some older style board websites. I'm looking for a reddit replacement (deleted account there) and never knew of this site. I heard about it from Shacknews.