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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I wouldn't be so excited about this spike. I feel it may have been created by a botnet auto creating a bunch of accounts on 18th and 19th. It doesn't look natural.
edit: You can also see the "active user ratio" dropping significantly in the same timeframe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Otoh, something like 600 pages of new posts have been made in the last like 36hours iirc? Vs about 1800 pages created over the last few years?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

There have been several instances reporting massive amounts of bot accounts. They are working on purging them and have started enabling captcha to stop new ones.