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

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

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

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.

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

Long live Lemmy!

Hooray!

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.

This is insane

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.

Okay but seriously 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖

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.

Sorry, that was me adding some testing accounts 😔

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

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