• Overzeetop@lemmy.world
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        Today’s noobs are tomorrow’s participants and next months’ experts. Take it as a chance to be awesome to one another.

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          Speaking as a noob trying to see if I can respond from another server… Hi!

          I spun up an instance for a friend group, to test it out, and while I think no one has a real clue what’s going on, it’s nice to have something new and positive. And since I or a friend control the server, no worries on the perverse incentives of the internet giants.

          So, yeah, hopefully we can learn, and hopefully the ecosystem can grow.

      • TrickyCamel@lemmy.world
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        Definitely, I remember mayayo (Boost’s dev) commenting that the update he pushed out recently was the last dance or something.

    • TheFence@lemmy.world
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      I already deleted my 3P app and was looking for an alternative. I wanted to be the one that ripped that band-aid off so it could scab up early. So far I’m liking these Lemmy servers. They are my polysporin :p

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    I wonder how many people have accidentally signed up for more lemmy instances before they realized that wasn’t needed.

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      I’m still not sure what an instance is but I’ll sign up to some more of them if I can get more content.

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        nope you wont. If you signed up at an instance that hasnt defederated like beehaw then you will be able to see almost anything.

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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        No that’s literally what you don’t need to do. You only need one account, your instance will talk to other instances to bring you content from the whole network, to your one account. That includes the ability to comment on it, and interact with, etc.

        • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
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          It could come in handy not only as username reserve, just found out you can follow mastodon users from kbin (you can’t in lemmy), maybe it’s well know already but for me everything is still a discovery :D

        • Grant@lemmy.world
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          I saw that one of the largest Lemmy’s hadn’t had 3 names taken that are high value (to me at least) so I snatched up the three I use often or really wanted. I’ve always dreamed of being one of the like [email protected] and now I am!

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    There’s no way these are not bot accounts. I heard there’s a lot of instances with no sign-up validation that are just being flooded by requests.

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    I love Lemmy, but as others have already said, the vast majority of these signups are likely bots. Pretty spooky.

    • Master@lemmy.world
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      Bots and multi-accounts. I had one reddit account with no alts. Here I have like 6 accounts because of all the federated / non federated bs.

      • MBM@lemmy.world
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        I can’t imagine being that unlucky with your instances, maybe you’re running into bugs or the less intuitive parts of Lemmy (like how links to posts and communities don’t work how you’d expect them to)

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          It was mostly bugs/stability issues for me.

          I created a lemmy account, but I’ve never actually been able to log into it. I even tried creating another account on lemmy, no dice.

          Created a kbin account, but then found out that they were defederated temporarily due to the influx, and they had some really annoying cloudflare stuff on

          Created a fedia account, but posts from other instances were delayed by like 6-8 hours, and fedia itself was (and still is) a relatively small instance.

          Kbin has since refederated so it’s working the best for me.

          Couldn’t figure out a good way to get mastadon to mesh with the ui of other instances so I created a mastadon account. Then I realized I’d gone down a rabbit hole of porn so my mastadon feed was taken over by nsfw stuff, so I made a new non-horny mastadon account.

          That’s seven. If beehaw ever defederates from kbin, I might make an eighth so I can participate there (unless fedia starts becoming better at updating).

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          3 of them were defederated by beehaw but I also have a beehaw account and then 2 others just in case… But I am sure I’m not the only one like this. So the total lemmy numbers are probably inflated… not that reddit numbers aren’t also inflated.

      • HollowNotion@lemmy.world
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        Yeah, same here. I created one on lemmy.one… realized lemmy.world is open and has more traffic right now, so I created a new one here. I also have a kbin user for similar reasons. But still, the content flow does seem to be slowly increasing.

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        Im a newbie, why do you have so many accounts? Isn’t it bothersome to switch between them for whatever you are using them for?

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          To each their own I guess. It’s not bothersome for me to switch accounts as I normally browse each lemmy locally to make sure I’m seeing as many of the comments as possible. I never really subscribed to the “subscribe/follow” feature of reddit. I liked my front page and all my niche communities separate so when I want to read about xxx I go to xxx subreddit and read all the top posts then move to my next subreddit. To many things fall through the cracks of the front page IMO. But to each their own, again. There is no reason to run lemmy like I do vs one account if it is working for you as is.

      • JowlesMcGee@kbin.social
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        There was supposedly a post the other day about a bug that would let people creat a ton of accounts using a bot. My understanding is that pretty much the next day the amount of new users increased immensely, so the timing of it so seems a little suspect

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          The number of users increased immensely the next day because Hexbear.net migrated to upstream Lemmy and their users/stats started being tracked. This newest wave of users does seem to me like bots, specially because they are signing up to instances where little to no activity is happening, but who knows.

  • House.of.Questions@lemmy.world
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    I hadn’t even heard of Lemmy until a few days ago. Maybe it’ll ride the momentum. End of the month there will probably be another influx, considering the reddit changes.

    Let’s hope so! Some of the communities are a bit empty still. Hopefully it’ll change. :)

    • RamesesKnibs@lemmy.world
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      I heard of Tildes first. Tried it, didn’t get it, didn’t like the UI and just gave up on it. Saw someone mention Lemmy in a Reddit thread about the blackouts. Googled it, got confused, went to join, got really confused, made accounts on 3 different instances due to aforementioned confusion, started scrolling, haven’t stopped in over a week. I like it here

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        I was turned off of Tildes because of the fact that (at least when I tried it) they hadn’t implemented automated password changing, you had to message an actual person.

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        I believe most accounts created in the last 48 hours are bot accounts. Here is the list of top 20 fastest growing instances. Looks like 15 out of 20 were created in the last few days and has almost no active users.

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          @2014MU69 @MicroWave
          Lemmy’s first big bot campaign, yay.

          Bots only target successful platforms and mastodon has survived many bot campaigns, so I’m not too worried by this. But let’s give a hug to our admins. When all those accounts start spamming, they’ll need to do a lot of mitigation. Especially if the bots come from many different domains. (and also because lemmy moderation tools are not great)

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              @MicroWave
              Yes, when your server is getting swarmed in spam, you first fediblock (or at least limit, when limit is supported like on mastodon).

              Then you ask the admin of the instance what’s going on. You can also help them clean up the bots.

              Then you can federate again once you’re 100% sure the bots are gone.

              When the number of bots is high compared to the number of users, that’s even more reasons to block fast

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      I wonder if there’s a scope to auto delete accounts that are created by never return after x weeks. Or a measure of active daily unique users by IP address…

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      That instance’s real url (at least in the DB) is lemmy.podycust.co.uk. parapheum.com is another one that has a similar situation, they have ~5k new accounts in the past days and very little activity on their instance other than the admins. I have sent messages to the admins of both instances making sure they are aware of the situation…

      For fun here are the numbers of their users that show up on my instance (because they have participated somewhere my instance is federated with) compared to beehaw which has about 12.5k users:

      lemmy=# select count(*) from person where instance_id = (select id from instance where domain = 'beehaw.org');
       count
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        3496
      (1 row)
      
      lemmy=# select count(*) from person where instance_id = (select id from instance where domain = 'lemmy.podycust.co.uk');
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           6
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      lemmy=# select count(*) from person where instance_id = (select id from instance where domain = 'parapheum.com');
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           3
      (1 row)
      

      Seems pretty concerning.

      • cerevant@lemmy.world
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        Scams. If one account creates 1000 spam posts, you ban that account and they are all gone. If 1000 accounts create 1 spam message each, the admin has a mess

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    I remember the days when everybody flocked to Voat in the midst of the Ellen Pao revolt, and then the site crumpled under its own freaking weight. It’s refreshing by comparison to see 360k users flock to Lemmy when the platform struggled to even break over a thousand just three weeks ago.

    Spez really screwed the pooch on this one.

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    I think a better metric would be the number of comments in the Fediverse. Until bots arrive, that would better estimate the growth of actual userbase.

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    I’m quite impressed how quickly the site is stabilizing in spite of continuing to grow so rapidly. I’d say it’s 10 times more navigable than when I first signed up, and I’ve only doubled my competency at interfacing with it.

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      IIRC, the Lemmy.world administrators had a big post that basically said: “Woops, we were still in debug-mode when we launched”.

      When they changed the settings to production-mode sometime this weekend (thereby generating far fewer logs on the server’s backend), the response speed of the website went into high-speed.

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    Happy to be here posting with you folks. I have a feeling it’s going to be quite the ride in the near future.