What happened to the fediverse stats here?
from tavostator@feddit.org to fediverse@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 12:01
https://feddit.org/post/14167924

Found these funky looking stat graphs on fedidb, anyone knows what caused this?

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hydroptic@sopuli.xyz on 14 Jun 12:06 next collapse

I absolutely don’t know, but my guess would be spambots or somesuch

IllNess@infosec.pub on 14 Jun 12:40 next collapse

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

sbv@sh.itjust.works on 14 Jun 12:58 collapse

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.

user224@lemmy.sdf.org on 14 Jun 15:07 next collapse

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.

sbv@sh.itjust.works on 14 Jun 19:24 collapse

Agreed.

hydroptic@sopuli.xyz on 14 Jun 17:17 collapse

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 on 14 Jun 19:29 collapse

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.

TheFriendlyDickhead@feddit.org on 14 Jun 12:20 next collapse

This feels like some kind of measuring error

spankmonkey@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 16:04 collapse

Mixed up metric and imperial again!

Illecors@lemmy.cafe on 14 Jun 12:25 next collapse

Inatances self report these stats. All you have to do is a single db query and all of a sudden you have 100 million MAU.

KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz on 14 Jun 12:54 next collapse

Oh yes sorry. I invited my friends to check out the Fediverse. They tried it for a couple of days, but most of them ended up going back to Twitter and Instagram.

SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org on 14 Jun 14:31 next collapse

I believe you, cause millions are the numbers you'd expect from those socials """friends"""

suswrkr@discuss.tchncs.de on 14 Jun 15:39 collapse

i invited my friends too. almost seems like if many people do this number goes up.

[deleted] on 14 Jun 14:19 next collapse

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CocaineShrimp@lemm.ee on 14 Jun 15:27 next collapse

Could be that lemm.ee announced they’re shutting down at the end of the month

mesamunefire@piefed.social on 14 Jun 15:35 next collapse

Fedidb should be taken with a grain of salt.

wiki_me@lemmy.ml on 15 Jun 16:21 collapse

I am not noticing anything on fiverse.observer. so i guess some glitch on fedidb?