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4 days before reddit's 3rd party app shutdown, Lemmy daily active users has skyrocketed 1600% this month
(lemmy.world)
From 3000 daily active users on June 1, 2023 to 47500 on June 26, 2023.
According to Lemmy's documentation, "An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame."
Sources:
- https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=30
- https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
EDIT: check out this link for a list of lemmy apps: https://lemmy.world/post/465785
The bots have inflated the total users count (around 2.4 million), but they aren't active (yet). So for now active users is a recommended way to measure the fediverse. But once the bots start posting, we'll have to find another way to track real user activity.
This is just really disappointing and gross. Is there any way to not have bots absolutely everywhere?
Yeah, it's absolutely disappointing and gross. Bots have been actively seeking out instances without registration validation and flocking to them. The top real instances (like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.ca) have been much more vigilant about that.
What's your take on it?
My (different person here) take is it's probing behavior. Who benefits? Anti-reddit-protest trolls want to see this fail, and some could have the resources. Savvy criminal organizations see potential profit. Major tech companies see at least a research opportunity at minimal expense. White hats want to find and raise awareness of vulnerabilities.
Only governments would really have no major motive beyond the usual surveillance of a social space. So I think the question should really be, who's not doing it? Because if people aren't wholesale fucking around yet, they'll start very soon. It's only the savvy or lucky that are aware of us still, but that will not be true for long. Snowball is rolling now, that's pretty plain to see.
I mean, we're just a big and growing pile of consumers. What else do you do with those?