According to threadcount
222,397 Lemmy/kbin accounts
+23,441 in the last hour
71,331 monthly active users
I don’t think we’ve seen any evidence of this yet but I think we should be skeptical of sudden spikes. Could be bots.
Edit: See here https://lemmy.cat/post/6401
Not to mention a couple hours ago someone publicly disclosed a bug that could create thousands of new accounts quickly.
Where was this disclosed?
That’s incredibly impressive! I haven’t noticed a single hitch and I’ve been browsing nonstop for the past hour or so.
Odd 503 error here and there due to cloudflare, otherwise smooth like butter!
Yesterday I was receiving a 503 error a few times. I’ve run into it once today when trying to upvote a post. At the very least kbin seems to be handling traffic pretty well.
Cloudflare is gone now, the 503 errors are caused by things being worked on!
Progress!
The live page psuedo app is working well for me on grapheneOS with the vanadium browser, I do also get a random 503 error but it’s already so much better than a couple days ago
Always good to see another grapheneOS user in the wild.
One more reporting in!
nice to be part of this, the fediverse is awesome. i joined kbin (readit.buzz) yesterday
off-topic but OP is your username related to The Good Place?
Yes! 😋
Awesome!
Looks like this comes from https://www.hexbear.net/, as I understand they started federating today (https://www.hexbear.net/post/273380) with 23K users and 271K posts.
This would explain the spike in the number of users and the number of publications. So no, they’re not bots
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Hexbear migrated to upstream Lemmy yesterday (they were running a home developed fork from an earlier version of Lemmy). I submitted the instance to fedidb earlier today (after a bunch of failed attempts because fedidb kept erroring out/timing out for some reason). Afaik, federation is not active (yet) on their instance.
Yup, they don’t seem to be federating.
Not on Kbin (hi from sh.itjustworks) but I love to see it popping off. I just hope they’re ready because if it’s like this now, after the 30th is gonna be nuts
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Nothing as spiteful as a Redditor done wrong
Agreed
Totally expected since that post from r/ModCoord mentioned kbin and lemmy
Oddly enough, they initially mentioned kbin.social directly, but we’re not on the list anymore.
We’ve been replaced by https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list , however, we’re not listed there, either.
Well, like lemmy, it’s recommended that we don’t all flood to one instance and overwhelm them. It seems most people have gotten the message re: lemmy but most are still just signing up at kbin.social
That’s understandable. I was just confused that the site that appears to list kbin instances is missing this one.
However, we appear to be showing up now in that site list, so all is well.
This is exciting. I don’t need millions of people, just enough to not be a ghost town.
I feel like we may well be over that particular hump now.
Now excuse me while I go give Ernest some more coffee. I somehow doubt he was expecting to become the founding father of a whole new social media ecosystem all at once like this. :)
Wow, finally people are flooding in, just hope these instances can handle it. Did some youtuber mention us or something?
According to the post I linked to, in the comments someone mentions that Lemmy and Kbin were mentioned on a Reddit post. ETA: I recommend rfollowing that account.
I’m a bit skeptical of 23k real new accounts in the last hour. If true, it’s quite something. But, it could be bots, it could be some bug inflating the numbers, it could be somebody taking advantage of the account creation bug someone mentioned earlier.
We’ll see.
100% these are bots.
Ooh exciting stuff, I wonder if there is another wave with the appocalypse on the 30th.
the r/modcoord people finally admitted that there’s no use sticking around and have finally started saying to leave reddit
I suspect that will be the next wave too. Then whenever reddit gets closer and closer to going public I have a feeling they have more steps in place they will start to change/shut down more subs that don’t ‘align’ with a clean image they want advertisers and shareholders to see. The place will become more and more dry as everything becomes about pleasing those who pay them rather than the community.
I could be wrong but with how they ignored and responded to the recent protest (whether people agree with the protest or not) they clearly are hell bent on their way or the highway.
As awesome as this is, I hope it is not because of a bug someone posted about a few hours ago being able to create accounts in mass.Some people need to learn about responsible disclosure.
If legit then this is fantastic!I had to create like four accounts today before I finally got a confirmation email.
I was thinking they same thing. They didn’t even test it ok their own instance 😑
Oh hey, I’m a statistic 😂
I know it’s early…but this seems a better start than Mastodon! Hope it sticks! Even if we get a fourth of reddit’s numbers I think we can have a great community!
Over 55 million active daily users on Reddit, a fourth would be cool but I’d be happy with a fifty-fifth too.
This is nothing. July’s going to be insane.
Haha I didn’t know how much reddit does. But even a fraction would be a good place, no oversaturation.
Definitely agree, there’s probably a line we need to cross where fedi becomes self sustaining, without being driven by Reddit’s drama.
What was the Reddit userbase increase at the time of the Digg exodus? Or the Slashdot exodus? I’d be happy with those numbers. The ball should roll from there, especially as people get their grips with the concept of federation.
I saw someone mentioned earlier today that there was norhing stopping automated account creation or something (I’m not tech savvy enough to knoww exact6what he meant) aand as a proof of concept, they created like 20,000 accounts or something on sh.it.just.works. So I’m hoping this isn’t just a flood of bots.
Who let the bots in
