Comment on What happened to the fediverse stats here?

hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Look at the bottom with server count. Likely something screwed up there, and when those instances were suddenly returned, the user count was added back before being subtracted when they disappeared from the data.

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    • sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Agreed.

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• IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That is my guess too. Israel is preparing for Iran propaganda. Israel and Russia are the top internet propaganda countries.

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