• maggoats@lemmy.world
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    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.

    Edit to add a comment I made on another post Basically there might be about 200k real users right now including lurkers, growing at a rate of basically 13.5k per day.

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      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.

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        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.