@fediverse Fediverse user growth jumped to ~50’000’000 users. What happened ?
The FediDB *Fediverse User Growth* graph shows a significant jump in user count in February. Software distribution is also 81% *other*, and the biggest server is fediverse.hanbitgaram.com with 39 million users ! What happened ?
https://fedidb.org/

  • @fr0g@feddit.deEnglish
    123•1 year ago

    There’s also been huge waves of spam account attacks on Mastodon recently.

    • RBGEnglish
      11•1 year ago

      Yep, today I have seen a dozen or more instances of some account from some obscure server making their only post with just a picture of a spam can.

      Those are only the ones that go through, I am sure there is probably a lot more than the ones I saw.

      • @DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        And if you go to the website that the picture is from, the page is a string of text that isn’t in a spoken language or a common programming language. So the image is to make you think that it just a silly picture, when it is actually probably something pretty nefarious.

        Yesterday, they seemed to always tag a warframe community.

  • @InfiniteFlow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61•1 year ago

    While I’m not entirely sure wat it actually means, the message you get on that site right now might be the reason (some kind of experiment gone wrong artificially inflating the numbers):

    I was creating an implementation for the activity pub instance service transfer, but it seems to have spread far. We are very sorry to those who have experienced inconvenience.

    All temporarily used data has been removed and all data has been removed. The figures in the data will soon converge to zero.

    I trawled unintentionally.

  • @GuyWithLag@lemmy.world
    13•1 year ago
    • It may be counting Threads / Bsky participants
    • More likely fediverse broke through to the awareness of bit fleet maintainers…
    • @GuyWithLag@lemmy.world
      13•1 year ago

      Well, it’s one smartass that spun up his own system and that reports 39m users.

      A different kind of spam, looks like.

  • asudoxEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    Forget the user count. It’s probably mostly spammers. MAU is the important one.

    As more fediverse platforms start to be fully interoperable with each other, it should feel more active here. Plus the upcoming possible downfalls of reddit and twitter should cause another semi-dramatic growth. As soon as they start doing some sketchy shit that even the normie users find bad, we should see an increase in both user count and MAU in the fediverse. Mastodon will probably be the biggest one for ever or maybe for just a few years as Reddit users come to Lemmy.