20k users joined the last days ?

Sounds pretty suspicious to me.

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I just joined yesterday because I saw a post that I can’t find. But it reminded me to ditch Reddit and find some Lemmy instances. I’m glad I found this one and was able to sign up. Just my 2 cents.
- Well I’m happy you chose to join us 🤗
I was able to delete most of the fake users, but the user count on the homepage does not update 🤷 I can't find that number saved in the database anywhere.
- Nodinfo.json maybe? Thats what the fedidb site pulls the numbers it seems.
  
  Yeah but that's not a file that just exists. Turns out the aggregates were saved to the database so I updated the user count there manually. Should be okay now.
Lemmy explorer ( https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=synthesizer ) does not show this instance. Is it related to this issue with fake user count? Or Waveform just hidden from explorer to prevent bot invasion?
- Good question, I wasn't aware of the explorer but in the logs of the instance I can see that the did query the instance from time to time. I will get in touch with them to see why this instance isn't on there.
  
  Seems to work now?
Yeah you're right. That doesn't sound right. Will take a look.
- Seems it happened on many instances.
  
  https://fedidb.org/network/instance/waveform.social
  
  Thanks for letting me know, I have blocked the bot in our firewall for now and will delete the fake account shortly

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