There has been a big spike in growth over the last 2 days, and some rather suspicious new instances appeared out of nowhere with thousands of new users, even though there is close to no activity in any of them.
Could all those be bots? Would it be smart to block those instances preemptively?

  • WistfulOP
    2·
    1 year ago

    Sure, but why on these days specifically? I don’t think anything happened that could’ve triggered such a sudden spike of users…
    I also ran into this post, talking about it.

    • weilbith
      2·
      1 year ago

      As I’m one of those new users of the last 2 days: The collective protest by temporarily shutting down many subreddits was over like 3 days ago (?). Many of them have now the topic where to migrate to if Reddit doesn’t change their mind. And Lemmy is currently highly ranked in many of the (technical/nerdy) subreddits I followed.

    • MilanMA
      2·
      1 year ago

      To add to my previous response, for tchncs, the user wave actually slowed down a bit i feel like… who knows.