4 days before reddit's 3rd party app shutdown, Lemmy daily active users has skyrocketed 1600% this month

MicroWave@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 323 points –

From 3000 daily active users on June 1, 2023 to 47500 on June 26, 2023.

According to Lemmy's documentation, "An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame."

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EDIT: check out this link for a list of lemmy apps: https://lemmy.world/post/465785

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Yeah, it's absolutely disappointing and gross. Bots have been actively probing for obscure instances without registration validation and flocking to them. Good thing the top real lemmy instances (like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.ca) have been much more vigilant about that.

Are those instances defederating from the bot-filled ones?

Yeah, those instances are defederating from the bot-filled ones, but new ones are still popping up (although seems to be slowing down a little for now).

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