@fediverse Fediverse user growth jumped to \~50'000'000 users. What happened ?
@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/
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.
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.
410 Gone!
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.
One time I accidentally removed access to a share drive for everyone in my entire company. It took a day to get it fixed. That was probably the worst day of my life lol
Could you please write the same comment, but without the namecalling for what seems to be an honest mistake?
Good Lord, for all the talk about the Fediverse being a nicer place than corporate-controlled social media, comments like yours really show how that is very far from the rule.
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.