MicroWave@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoLemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square239fedilinkarrow-up1222arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1219arrow-down1imageLemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump?lemmy.worldMicroWave@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square239fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredystop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoAs much as I’d love to think that it’s all users, the reality is that it was partially bots. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3200
minus-squaredrphungky@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIt’s going to take a lot of bots to compare to the amount of bots and sock puppets on Reddit. At the very least we’re comparing apples to apples by including them in the “members” counts.
minus-squarekinther@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago@ruud did turn on the captcha for registration, so that should prevent it in the future. Unless they become sentient :)
minus-squaredystop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt’s possible for some bots to pass captcha actually, which is why Google has reCaptcha now. It’s essentially an arms race.
As much as I’d love to think that it’s all users, the reality is that it was partially bots.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3200
It’s going to take a lot of bots to compare to the amount of bots and sock puppets on Reddit. At the very least we’re comparing apples to apples by including them in the “members” counts.
@ruud did turn on the captcha for registration, so that should prevent it in the future. Unless they become sentient :)
It’s possible for some bots to pass captcha actually, which is why Google has reCaptcha now. It’s essentially an arms race.