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FediDB Updated For Threadiverse - Active Users Now Recommended As Default Due To Bot Influx Inflating Total User Count (86k Active Users!)
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Kbin is listed with 40k register AND active user.
And some other fediverse instance have ten of thousands registered user for 1 or 2 active.
Is it reliable ?
Ernest gave similar figures yesterday in his post on /m/kbinMeta
https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/68541/kbin-server-update-or-how-the-server-didn-t-blow-up
Kbin wasn't hit by the bot creation wave because it doesn't have a working API yet. Lemmy is the easier entry point for bot development at the moment.
Lemmy instances have had a HUGE influx of bot registrations lately. Captcha was not enabled by default.
I'd say this way round is more reliable than having total users being the default. There are clearly servers with thousands of idle accounts (likely bot accounts) that are doing nothing (yet).
At least this way, people will know which servers are actually filled with people who are doing things.
Someone is going to be using those bots for some nefarious purpose at some point. Perhaps they wanted to direct people to that instance by using bots to push it to the top of the "most users" list and have a phishing link in there? I'm just not sure.