• levochemist@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      The rapid Lemmy growth as a whole is certainly bot driven but lemmy.world addressed the bot issue already so the majority of new accounts are most likely organic.

    • Antik 👾@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I see why you would think that but server admin @ruud was quick to notice and actually closed signup for a short period while this was happening. And then after captcha was enabled the influx of bot users was halted.