@fediverse Fediverse user growth jumped to ~50’000’000 users. What happened ?
The FediDB *Fediverse User Growth* graph shows a significant jump in user count in February. Software distribution is also 81% *other*, and the biggest server is fediverse.hanbitgaram.com with 39 million users ! What happened ?
https://fedidb.org/

  • @fr0g@feddit.deEnglish
    179•5 months ago

    There’s also been huge waves of spam account attacks on Mastodon recently.

    • HandlesEnglish
      24•5 months ago

      I hope that’s not the entire answer but it has to add some numbers to the jump.

    • RBGEnglish
      17•5 months ago

      Yep, today I have seen a dozen or more instances of some account from some obscure server making their only post with just a picture of a spam can.

      Those are only the ones that go through, I am sure there is probably a lot more than the ones I saw.

      • @DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caEnglish
        2•4 months ago

        And if you go to the website that the picture is from, the page is a string of text that isn’t in a spoken language or a common programming language. So the image is to make you think that it just a silly picture, when it is actually probably something pretty nefarious.

        Yesterday, they seemed to always tag a warframe community.

    • DosDude👾English
      16•5 months ago

      Yeah, it’s bleeding over to lemmy too when you browse by new.