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@fediverse Fediverse user growth jumped to ~50'000'000 users. What happened ?
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Can someone do a ELI5 on this?
Someone was testing a program they made that links Lemmy / Mastadon (ActivityPub) to other services, think threads or Reddit.
When they ran the program it created all the dummy accounts and published it to the Fediverse making it look like a lot of new users joined.