• PopularUsername@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I don’t see the proof in that link, although maybe I’m missing something, it just seems to imply that is the case.

    • Senokir@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. It’s literally just them saying “there are a lot of new users and theoretically they could all be bots, therefore they are all bots”.

    • Red Wizard 🪄@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Captions and applications are not default enabled on an instance. There is no rate limit on the creation of accounts. Many new instances have 0 posts but 10,000 or 20,000+ user accounts. Startrek.website purged something like 20K fake accounts from their instance after enabling registration protections.

      Active users will always be the better metric.