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.
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.
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
Maybe. If the bots have been created by opportunism during the vulnerability, they may still be “dormant” until their owner find something to do with it. So I wouldn’t be surprise they are not doing anything yet.
Reddit’s mostly bots too, and the rest are scroll zombies. We just need to hope that people who generate content and discussion show up too; just a few thousand would be enough to get the ball rolling.
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.
The calm before the storm
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.
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
Wouldn’t a bot account be more likely to randomly upvote/downvote than a human?
Reddit always had a large number of lurkers who only had accounts to select which subs they wanted to see…
Maybe. If the bots have been created by opportunism during the vulnerability, they may still be “dormant” until their owner find something to do with it. So I wouldn’t be surprise they are not doing anything yet.
Ah, stupid that people do stuff like that.
I also suspect they’re all bots.
I joined when users were 10k and I didn’t see any increase in engagement including comments and upvotes.
Reddit’s mostly bots too, and the rest are scroll zombies. We just need to hope that people who generate content and discussion show up too; just a few thousand would be enough to get the ball rolling.