I think if you want a real count of the community it’s best to look at the Communities page. It seems like there is either a bug in the reporting due to integration with other Lemmy instances or someone wrote a script that is taking advantage of open registration.
I think if you want a real count of the community it’s best to look at the Communities page. It seems like there is either a bug in the reporting due to integration with other Lemmy instances or someone wrote a script that is taking advantage of open registration.
For now, I turned off open registration.
It’s the latter, fediverse observer shows 65K users here practically overnight