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      Yup, came here to say that as well. it’s al bots. The active users graph is much more realistic.

      And I’ve been seeing some…odd looking… comments recently from users at instances known for being mostly bots. Some of these comments really look AI generated, and have a suspicious number of upvotes.

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      Yeah theres no way lemmy instances that were struggling to scale 2 weeks ago with a few thousand users active are supporting 2.5mill suddenly

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    You gotta stop counting total users. Only active users should be counted. We know there’s utterly massive numbers of bots being created. Plus people have multiple accounts from trying out different instances even if they’ll only use one.

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    Huzzah!

    And now that I’m in the beta for Limbo / Liftoff, I’m loving it. The web experience was not great for me on mobile.

    Servers still seem slow though. Posting a comment is slow. Loading images is slow. But I’m not going to complain about that when this kind of explosive growth is happening. Keeping things up at all is impressive.

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    Yeah I just found out about this project/the fediverse, been looking for several weeks for the best replacement to Reddit and this is by far the most promising. Also, as a self-hosting enthusiast, I’m liking this place more and more by the minute. With any luck increased visibility will continue to push activity & content. Power to the people.

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      It’ll take a while for the volume to trickle down to the smaller more niche communities, but I have already seen the volume increase tremendously in the large ones. Let’s enjoy the ride.

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    Are any of these accounts bots?

    Or maybe how many of these accounts are bots?

    Are they all bots?

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      Around 95% accounts are bots. Around 90% if we are positive and assume that a lot of redditors joined since the bot farming started.

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        Thats seems bad. I know some bots are hepful. But 1 million bots seems like they for something nefariously.

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              Trolling in the sense making people freak out while not doing anything with those bots. That’s what I’m hoping for although it’s improbable.

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                I was thinking more racist transphobic trolling aided by an amry of lurking upvoting bots…but ya know.

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          If it’s anything like Reddit’s bots, they’ll probably post copy-pasted comments to gain upvotes, then they’ll start spamming advertisements and scams once they have a good amount.

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            I’m just afraid that these bots are bascially here to sabotage lemmy.

            The fediverse is so awesome, there is no way big social media corps can play nice in the long term.

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        So what are the Bots doing? Who created them and why? I don’t understand the purpose of bots.

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          Currently nothing but once activated they may start spamming stuff everywhere. Owners can decide what gets upvotes and what gets downvotes which gives you a lot of power on a platform where downvotes/upvotes mean everything.

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            Still don’t get it - someone makes a comment, bots upvote it so it gets seen by more people. Not really going to change the world.

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              Sure, but do you like ads that masquerade as posts? Because if you do then you’ll love the delicious taste of Diet Coke, grab one today! (16900 upvotes)

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                Oh boy, I, for one, love the taste of Diet Coke, the perfect refreshing drink when you and your family watch my new movie, “Barbie”, only in theaters July 21st.

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                  Companies advertising on here through AMA’s should also be prevented because it’s just advertising

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              They don’t want to change the world. They want to let you know about hot singles in your area

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      I barely touch Reddit nowadays, I never thought that’d be possible…

      Seems like it ink needs a stupid AF CEO to achieve that!

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    Good to see, but as with all posts like this, it’s important to note that the really important number is “Active Users” That number has gone up significantly as well, just not as fast as number of accounts.

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      Yeah this is a good point.

      It took me months to actually start using Lemmy and Mastodon. I would consider myself a tech savvy person and it still took a while getting used too. I think there need to be better tutorials linked on the sign-up pages that help people understand the basic concepts. That would help drive true user acquisition.