Fediverse @lemmy.world tavostator @feddit.org 6d ago

What happened to the fediverse stats here?

Found these funky looking stat graphs on fedidb, anyone knows what caused this?

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I absolutely don't know, but my guess would be spambots or somesuch
- Lemmy is a federated system and these stats are self-reported by user maintained systems. Rather than a sudden influx of users (bots or otherwise), a misconfigured system or hiccup in stats collection seems more likely.
  
  Generally, Hanlon's Razor, add applied to computing: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by ~~stupidity~~ user error.
  
  There's a lot of malicious systems out there, but there is little corroborating evidence indicating that we're under attack.
  
  Hanlon's Razor is all well and good as a heuristic, but tends to lead to people discounting malice much too often. Also, I really didn't say we were "under attack"
  
  Look at the bottom with server count. Likely something screwed up there, and when those instances were suddenly returned, the user count was added back before being subtracted when they disappeared from the data.
- That is my guess too. Israel is preparing for Iran propaganda. Israel and Russia are the top internet propaganda countries.
Oh yes sorry. I invited my friends to check out the Fediverse. They tried it for a couple of days, but most of them ended up going back to Twitter and Instagram.
- i invited my friends too. almost seems like if many people do this number goes up.
- I believe you, cause millions are the numbers you'd expect from those socials """friends"""
Inatances self report these stats. All you have to do is a single db query and all of a sudden you have 100 million MAU.
This feels like some kind of measuring error
- Mixed up metric and imperial again!
Fedidb should be taken with a grain of salt.
Could be that lemm.ee announced they're shutting down at the end of the month
I am not noticing anything on fiverse.observer. so i guess some glitch on fedidb?

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