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Can you please stop posting users numbers until the bot situation is under control? Putting it like you're doing is misleading, half of them are bots (if not more).
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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Tbh it seems to be mostly bots adding to that growth. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to see the fediverse grow, but if it's overrun with bots... no one will want to stick around.
So far it looks like most of the bots are just signing up - not posting anything.
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Why do you say it's mostly bots?
There was an exploit released a few days back that could make thousands extremely fast (unsure of the number).The two top user instances at this point have 50k new users a piece, and 10 users active, lol.
Ah, stupid that people do stuff like that.
The relevant instances might as well remove non-active accounts that do not participates (e.g. upvotes or downvotes), I guess it would be enough to remove most of them
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Welcome all you noobs
(don't hit me, I just got here too)
Lest not forget that Reddit used bots when it went live to drive users there. I don't know what I mean it was just a thought.
I just joined. Done with that godforsaken website Reddit. It’s taking a little getting used to, but I know I eventually will get a hang of it. I’m willing to put my time into this.
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I realized yesterday that i haven't been on Reddit for 3 days, but have been on Lemmy every day. It's refreshing.
To the moon XD
There are dozens of us! Baker's dozens! (We come in 13s)
Can't wait to see this chart come July 1st and the days the follow!
Yes. This is the future I want. I hope to help make the lemmyverse a verse worth inhabiting.
Yeah I agree I'm already donating to lemmy hopefully more people can join in on that and make the fediverse a better place.
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Now we just need to move all content from Reddit to here, so that when you research something on google, lemmy would have the answer instead of Reddit.
thats good
I also made a new account yesterday cause I noticed that it already looked much better than when I last checked. If some of my niche hobby subs move over here I‘d definitely spend more time in the ‘verse.
Performance and design are other big factors I‘m not a fan of right now, I hope someone with expertise in these fields can help the project out, but it‘s already servicable.
Create your own niche communities then! If others find that it exists, they’ll post to it. If everyone waits for someone else to start the niche community, no one will start the niche community.
What niche hobbies are you waiting on communities for?
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Keep in mind, there's a known issue with bot registration spam so take total user count stat with a big chunk of salt:
https://botsin.space/@threadcount/110581723322900741
Daily active users is a better measure:
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats (site stability is iffy right now, but refresh a couple times and it should load eventually)
While this is good, I can't help but feel that the branding of the decentralised social media ecosystem is hurting the growth a little bit. The -verse suffix, imo, is just too tainted from all the cryptobro metaverse scams and really makes this seem like some crypto scam as opposed to an alternative to the current crumbling social media platforms.
Regardless, I hope this ecosystem does take off, as it does seem useful and interesting.
If it means anything, universe and multiverse are the first that come to my mind.
That's fair. Maybe I'm just chronically online, but it really skeeves me out how eerily similar some of the terms here are to crypto scams. Not saying this is one, obviously- as far as I can tell, there really isn't any monetary incentive to run an instance-, but the language used at the moment can get uncomfortably close, which definitely might push people away.
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Count me in.
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