Lemmy is a federated system and these stats are self-reported by user maintained systems. Rather than a sudden influx of users (bots or otherwise), a misconfigured system or hiccup in stats collection seems more likely.

Generally, Hanlon's Razor, add applied to computing: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by ~~stupidity~~ user error.

There's a lot of malicious systems out there, but there is little corroborating evidence indicating that we're under attack.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Hanlon's Razor is all well and good as a heuristic, but tends to lead to people discounting malice much too often. Also, I really didn't say we were "under attack"

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Hanlon's Razor is all well and good as a heuristic, but tends to lead to people discounting malice much too often.

There's definitely scenarios where that is the case.

Also, I really didn't say we were "under attack"

I would describe a massive influx of spambots as an attack on a social media platform. It's my characterization. I didn't mean to imply that you said it.

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