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From 3000 daily active users on June 1, 2023 to 47500 on June 26, 2023.

According to Lemmy's documentation, "An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame."

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Bots have inflated the total users count (around 2.4 million), but they aren't active (yet). So for now active users is a recommended way to measure the fediverse. But once bots start posting, we'll have to find another way to track real user activity.

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

This is just really disappointing and gross. Is there any way to not have bots absolutely everywhere?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yeah, it's absolutely disappointing and gross. Bots have been actively probing for obscure instances without registration validation and flocking to them. Good thing the top real lemmy instances (like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.ca) have been much more vigilant about that.

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

Are those instances defederating from the bot-filled ones?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, those instances are defederating from the bot-filled ones, but new ones are still popping up (although seems to be slowing down a little for now).

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

I hope there's some way to block that, bots are useful or funny sometimes (like the ones to download videos, reminders, etc). But I asume most of them have the sole purpose of advertising or brigading.

I can't wrap my head about Lemmy 0.18 dropping capchas.

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

If we have the ability to identify them or where they're coming from, could our various platforms just defederate or block the ones who aren't dealing with the bot problem down the line?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wait how did we conclude that the bots aren't active yet?

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

Because people have been monitoring bot infected instances and have not seen them post or comment (yet).