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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Much better statistic than total users due to all the spam bots recently created.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I think so too, at least until the bots activate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Begun, the clone wars have

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is the evidence that they are bots and not people who just lurk?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

50 thousand registered users all at once on an instance with no posts and no activity. Lurkers usually don't need to make accounts. It's very suspicious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There are servers with 6-7 thousands accounts all created almost at the same time and no user activity at all.

Did lurkers decide to select some servers to be "lurking-only" servers? Hardly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This website recommends a random server for people to join: https://join-lemmy.org/instances. Could that be the reason?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Random servers are not always the same, recommendations change in time based on servers activity.

Lurkers don't organize themselves to all go to the same servers.