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@fediverse Fediverse user growth jumped to ~50'000'000 users. What happened ? (files.mastodon.social)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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@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/

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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Can someone do a ELI5 on this?

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    Someone was testing a program they made that links Lemmy / Mastadon (ActivityPub) to other services, think threads or Reddit.

    When they ran the program it created all the dummy accounts and published it to the Fediverse making it look like a lot of new users joined.

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