I personally have made 4 accounts in the process of deciding the right instance, I think it’s likely that this figure includes every account made but not necessarily people.
I tried to join a few before coming here. Idk what happened but it seems like I just wasn’t accepted for whatever reason. I’ve only received an actual rejection from beehaw though
Me too, took me four instances to find one I liked. Lemm.ee is my home, but lemmy.one is my alternate. Actually handy to have more than one in case of outages. Anyway, I guess I’m one user counted as four.
Out with Reddit, and in with Lemmy! I am / was a fully mobile user of Reddit. It they are going to stiff the app and dev I’ve supported for a decade, I’m moving on.
Spam?
No idea. Could be legit users, could be bots. I don’t have a clue.
A lot of instances have been targeted by bots in the past few days unfortunately. Several small instances are suddenly up to thousands of users.
We have been spared so far - maybe thanks to the captcha requirement on sign-up - but that’s no guarantee that we won’t be hit soon as well. I’m constantly monitoring it & prepared to start putting mitigations in place when I notice incoming bots.
