A lot of us haven’t been able to create accounts due to high activity. It looks like account creation requests have finally started going through.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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I'm attempting to move on from Reddit. Heard good things about Lemmy. I'm checking things out.
I love this because more people will comment. A majority of my time on Reddit was reading through comments and hearing all of people’s interesting takes and learning random information. The daily increase is fun to watch especially since I’m not the one maintaining the servers!
Yeah I learned so much reading other people's comments, so I'm trying to recreate that on this site.
totally agree. I've been trying to engage more myself to encourage others to do the same
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I finally got lemmy to reset my password, so plan to use it more. Reddit takeover of subs was ridiculous, the surge is only going to continue
There was a post that has code snippet that tells lemmy admins to turn on email verification and captcha.
And then lemmy.world admin turned off signup for a little while to clean up bot accounts.
Then account numbers jumped 84k in one day.
Coincidence? I don't think so.
I left something out
The code snippet was 24 lines of Python code that demonstrate how to generate random username and password and call lemmy's API to register account.
People are tired of Reddit's abusive policies and of not be heard, and this is our response. I will keep use Reddit thanks to an user which made this, and thanks to the dev of Infinity for make it open source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Infinity_For_Reddit/comments/14c2v5x/build_your_own_apk_with_your_personal_api_key_in/
But I will remain here on Lemmy with Jerboa and see how it evolves.
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I joined a couple days ago. I decided to just sign up and jump in. Everyone else doing it, why can't I?
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Unfortunately, such a huge spike is probably because of a bot campaign…
It's snowballing. A few friends tell a few friends, and so on, and so on, and so on...
They’re starting to de-mod folks.
They found put we had snacks. Specifically Bugles. Reddit didn't have any! not even enough for one hand :/
I finally decided to make an account after a week of ignoring Reddit, what is going on over there is ridiculous at this point, Reddit should have just given 3rd party apps an exception and called it a day.
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Hopefully is not an army of bots, but for me that's the most plausible explanation.
Lemm.ee's admin said he had to defederate a lot of smaller instances because they were having trouble with bots
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Remember this is CEO proof as long the servers can maintain, donate to your homebase server if you can.