Okay but seriously 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖

There’s no way these are not bot accounts. I heard there’s a lot of instances with no sign-up validation that are just being flooded by requests.

I was in your comments last night with the 240k and was floored. The fact it jumped overnight by ANOTHER 120k is mind-blowing.

This. Is. Awesome.

I hadn’t even heard of Lemmy until a few days ago. Maybe it’ll ride the momentum. End of the month there will probably be another influx, considering the reddit changes.

Let’s hope so! Some of the communities are a bit empty still. Hopefully it’ll change. :)

About 20k are probably from hexbear, which migrated from their own distant fork of lemmy to the current version, so now they show up in a lot of trackers. They still haven’t enabled federation yet though.