@fediverse Fediverse user growth jumped to ~50’000’000 users. What happened ?
The FediDB *Fediverse User Growth* graph shows a significant jump in user count in February. Software distribution is also 81% *other*, and the biggest server is fediverse.hanbitgaram.com with 39 million users ! What happened ?
https://fedidb.org/
There’s also been huge waves of spam account attacks on Mastodon recently.
I hope that’s not the entire answer but it has to add some numbers to the jump.
Yeah, it’s bleeding over to lemmy too when you browse by new.
Yup its on lemmy aswell.
Yep, today I have seen a dozen or more instances of some account from some obscure server making their only post with just a picture of a spam can.
Those are only the ones that go through, I am sure there is probably a lot more than the ones I saw.
And if you go to the website that the picture is from, the page is a string of text that isn’t in a spoken language or a common programming language. So the image is to make you think that it just a silly picture, when it is actually probably something pretty nefarious.
Yesterday, they seemed to always tag a warframe community.
hehe, spam can