I wonder how many people have accidentally signed up for more lemmy instances before they realized that wasn't needed.

I signed up for a few different ones trying to find one with policies that I can agree with.
I did....lol
I'm still not sure what an instance is but I'll sign up to some more of them if I can get more content.
- nope you wont. If you signed up at an instance that hasnt defederated like beehaw then you will be able to see almost anything.
- No that's literally what you don't need to do. You only need one account, your instance will talk to other instances to bring you content from the whole network, to your one account. That includes the ability to comment on it, and interact with, etc.
I 100% did this in Mastodon when I first signed up.
I'm only on one lemmy but I did sign on both lemmy and kbin before realizing they were connected.
- Same here :) I consider it reserving my username for now.
I signed up to 3 lemmy instances but I settled for kbin now, should I delete the other accounts?
- I doubt this matters much. The posts/comments probably tax the database more than just the userdata.

I think we'll see another spike when the third-party apps are actually shut down.

- A general how-to for lemmy pinned to the top would do wonders.
- Today’s noobs are tomorrow’s participants and next months’ experts. Take it as a chance to be awesome to one another.
Is Boost shutting down?
- Can't imagine how Boost would survive when many more successful third-party apps are going under.
- Definitely, I remember mayayo (Boost's dev) commenting that the update he pushed out recently was the last dance or something.
I already deleted my 3P app and was looking for an alternative. I wanted to be the one that ripped that band-aid off so it could scab up early. So far I'm liking these Lemmy servers. They are my polysporin :p
I think we'll see another spike when the third-party apps are actually shut down.
It might turn into the Lemmy version of Eternal September.
That's why I'm here, the third party app I use is about to be shut down.

There's no way these are not bot accounts. I heard there's a lot of instances with no sign-up validation that are just being flooded by requests.

I think it's just bots. Look at this instance: https://picify.podycust.co.uk/ 7k users, no interactions

- I believe most accounts created in the last 48 hours are bot accounts. Here is the list of top 20 fastest growing instances. Looks like 15 out of 20 were created in the last few days and has almost no active users.
I wonder if there's a scope to auto delete accounts that are created by never return after x weeks. Or a measure of active daily unique users by IP address...
That instance's real url (at least in the DB) is lemmy.podycust.co.uk. parapheum.com is another one that has a similar situation, they have ~5k new accounts in the past days and very little activity on their instance other than the admins. I have sent messages to the admins of both instances making sure they are aware of the situation...
For fun here are the numbers of their users that show up on my instance (because they have participated somewhere my instance is federated with) compared to beehaw which has about 12.5k users:

lemmy=# select count(*) from person where instance_id = (select id from instance where domain = 'beehaw.org'); count ------- 3496 (1 row) lemmy=# select count(*) from person where instance_id = (select id from instance where domain = 'lemmy.podycust.co.uk'); count ------- 6 (1 row) lemmy=# select count(*) from person where instance_id = (select id from instance where domain = 'parapheum.com'); count ------- 3 (1 row)
Seems pretty concerning.
Makes it easy to defederate from them at least
What’s the point? Why do this?
- Scams. If one account creates 1000 spam posts, you ban that account and they are all gone. If 1000 accounts create 1 spam message each, the admin has a mess

Long live Lemmy!

I love Lemmy, but as others have already said, the vast majority of these signups are likely bots. Pretty spooky.

Bots and multi-accounts. I had one reddit account with no alts. Here I have like 6 accounts because of all the federated / non federated bs.
- I can't imagine being that unlucky with your instances, maybe you're running into bugs or the less intuitive parts of Lemmy (like how links to posts and communities don't work how you'd expect them to)
- Im a newbie, why do you have so many accounts? Isn't it bothersome to switch between them for whatever you are using them for?
- I have a similar thing going. Have 3 accounts, one on lemmy.world, one on kbin.social, and one on beehaw.org.
- Yeah, same here. I created one on lemmy.one... realized lemmy.world is open and has more traffic right now, so I created a new one here. I also have a kbin user for similar reasons. But still, the content flow does seem to be slowly increasing.
why would you think they're all bots?
- There was supposedly a post the other day about a bug that would let people creat a ton of accounts using a bot. My understanding is that pretty much the next day the amount of new users increased immensely, so the timing of it so seems a little suspect

I hadn't even heard of Lemmy until a few days ago. Maybe it'll ride the momentum. End of the month there will probably be another influx, considering the reddit changes.

Let's hope so! Some of the communities are a bit empty still. Hopefully it'll change. :)

I heard of Tildes first. Tried it, didn't get it, didn't like the UI and just gave up on it. Saw someone mention Lemmy in a Reddit thread about the blackouts. Googled it, got confused, went to join, got really confused, made accounts on 3 different instances due to aforementioned confusion, started scrolling, haven't stopped in over a week. I like it here
- I was turned off of Tildes because of the fact that (at least when I tried it) they hadn't implemented automated password changing, you had to message an actual person.

Calm down folks, these are bot signups: https://lemm.ee/post/177673

The active user-count increased by ~10% over the last 2d while registered user count increased 400%. The registered user growth is absolutely not "real". Now... 10% over 2d is still massive growth... Lemmy IS growing. But it's not doubling every 24h.

I remember the days when everybody flocked to Voat in the midst of the Ellen Pao revolt, and then the site crumpled under its own freaking weight. It's refreshing by comparison to see 360k users flock to Lemmy when the platform struggled to even break over a thousand just three weeks ago.

Spez really screwed the pooch on this one.

I think a better metric would be the number of comments in the Fediverse. Until bots arrive, that would better estimate the growth of actual userbase.

This is insane

Hooray!

I'm quite impressed how quickly the site is stabilizing in spite of continuing to grow so rapidly. I'd say it's 10 times more navigable than when I first signed up, and I've only doubled my competency at interfacing with it.

IIRC, the Lemmy.world administrators had a big post that basically said: "Woops, we were still in debug-mode when we launched".
When they changed the settings to production-mode sometime this weekend (thereby generating far fewer logs on the server's backend), the response speed of the website went into high-speed.
- If true that's hilarious.
  Was wondering why the site had been performing unusually well today. Part of me was worried that everybody got fed up of the lag, abandoned ship and went back to Reddit.
- It wasn't just logs. Turning debug off let a lot of the federation functions work in the background instead of causing a long pause every time someone posted, voted, etc.

Okay but seriously 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖

I think a measure of success is how quality the content is. Even if there was only 2 people on here, If the content was good I would visit every day.

- I don’t have an issue with content personally, just find if a bit confusing at times.
Back in my days we visited forums in personal home pages with about 3-4 strangers and we liked it!
- I knew all 20 people on the forum I used to frequent!
Yes, but it can also be argued that the higher the number of users, the higher the chances of insightful discussions taking place. We have a reason to rejoice at this surge as more users generally means more frequent engagement with all the content here, which itself fosters further and deeper engagement.
- Thats true until you introduce algorithmic recommendation.
  I think part of the reason this is working for me so well, is that I'm not being encouraged to passively doom-scroll by an algo that knows exactly how to keep me just the right amount of engaged, but never satisfied.

About 20k are probably from hexbear, which migrated from their own distant fork of lemmy to the current version, so now they show up in a lot of trackers. They still haven't enabled federation yet though.

Happy to be here posting with you folks. I have a feeling it's going to be quite the ride in the near future.

bbbut this is just a small moderater strike by a handful of users!

Sorry, that was me adding some testing accounts 😔

It's all bots......(probably)

Not that sure. Maybe a big chunk of it are, but there is a lot of people like me coming from reddit that signed yesterday, after doing some research and watching how things were here and on kbin.
Regarding the bots issues, new signups at lemmy.world were closed yesterday for several hours because of attempts to create spammy accounts. So maybe a mix of real accounts and spammy ones.
Yes it is. The top 20 fastest growing instances on https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse could be suffering from bot signup. Bit of a bummer.
- 10,000 users and only 7 posts and a dozen comments: https://lemmy.podycust.co.uk/communities

Hope the trend continues, but easy to quadruple on small numbers.

It's almost at 500k now.

Diaspora, here, we, come!

I have not heard that name in a long while now. What happened to it?
- Same. It's on the Fediverse stats page though. Second largest app after Mastodon.

This is great, happy to be on Lemmy :)

Remember to donate to your instance and the lemmy project if you have the means!

I was in your comments last night with the 240k and was floored. The fact it jumped overnight by ANOTHER 120k is mind-blowing.

This. Is. Awesome.

Lemmy's a grower, not a shower

Please shower though.

I just joined yesterday. This place is too bare-bones tbh. So many basic features lacking.

Sure, it's early days with Lemmy. I think it does a pretty decent job considering the orders of magnitude difference in dev time between Reddit and Lemmy.

I love seeing these charts. If it continues like that, we might hit a million by the 1st of July.