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23k New Lemmy and Kbin Accounts Created in Last Hour (botsin.space)
submitted 1 year ago by Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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222,397 Lemmy/kbin accounts
+23,441 in the last hour
71,331 monthly active users

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[–] retiolus@lemmy.cat 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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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[–] Odo@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] roofuskit@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, they don't seem to be federating.

[–] tobor@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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