• maggoats@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    I don’t doubt there’s a great amount of user growth, but it appears that many of those are account creation spam on instances with 1 active monthly user though.

    • subignition@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, no idea whether this is spammers trying to stake turf or someone trying to inflate the user count to stick it to reddit (or something) but the numbers from the 18th on are clearly inauthentic.

      • Hyperreality@kbin.social
        6·
        1 year ago

        TBF reddit’s numbers are also inauthentic.

        Hell, fake it till you make it isn’t that bad a strategy to attract new users.

        Of course, you also need content. I hope people start making bots which steal content from reddit, which bots on reddit steal from twitter/insta/tiktok/snapchat. That way we can all cut out the middle-man.

        On a side note, I think it’s really cool that I’m on kbin and commenting on something on lemmy.

        • Limitless_screaming@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          On a side note, I think it’s really cool that I’m on kbin and commenting on something on lemmy.

          It’s also so well integrated, that I just realized I am on a Lemmy magazine/community.

        • Kichae@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          What’s really cool is that, on lemmy-based website at least, you can also follow PeerTube channels, and comment on videos.

          Plus, there are Mastodon/Misskey/etc. fediverse microblogging users peppered all throughout these posts.

      • MerylasFalguard@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Conspiracy theory: what if Reddit is using it’s not army to make a bunch of dead/spam accounts to try to make Lemmy instances more expensive solely to try to price them out of their space so they can then turn and point to how “Reddit alternatives aren’t viable/stable.”

        On one hand, that’s obviously stupid and not true. On the other hand, I can see Huffman being petty and malicious enough to do something like that.

        • Kichae@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          Inactive accounts don’t really add any expense. Creating a bot farm to create large amounts of artificial traffic to crush competitors would risk antitrust lawsuits that would actually cripple the company.