Found these funky looking stat graphs on fedidb, anyone knows what caused this?

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      19 days ago

      Lemmy is a federated system and these stats are self-reported by user maintained systems. Rather than a sudden influx of users (bots or otherwise), a misconfigured system or hiccup in stats collection seems more likely.

      Generally, Hanlon’s Razor, add applied to computing: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity user error.

      There’s a lot of malicious systems out there, but there is little corroborating evidence indicating that we’re under attack.

      • hydroptic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        19 days ago

        Hanlon’s Razor is all well and good as a heuristic, but tends to lead to people discounting malice much too often. Also, I really didn’t say we were “under attack”

        • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          19 days ago

          Hanlon’s Razor is all well and good as a heuristic, but tends to lead to people discounting malice much too often.

          There’s definitely scenarios where that is the case.

          Also, I really didn’t say we were “under attack”

          I would describe a massive influx of spambots as an attack on a social media platform. It’s my characterization. I didn’t mean to imply that you said it.

  • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    3·
    19 days ago

    Inatances self report these stats. All you have to do is a single db query and all of a sudden you have 100 million MAU.

  • KurtVonnegut@mander.xyzEnglish
    2·
    19 days ago

    Oh yes sorry. I invited my friends to check out the Fediverse. They tried it for a couple of days, but most of them ended up going back to Twitter and Instagram.