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      r/interestingasfuck and r/shittylifeprotips are both total free-for-alls. Nsfw, spez hate spam, random shitposts… I assume r/pics is still John Oliver. NSFW subs are posting Christian content.

      Reddit is kinda on fire at the moment.

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        I think r/aww is also going for the John Oliver thirst (and I am absolutely all for it), And r/wellthatsucks is now all about hoovers… and the mods were throwing out awards left, right and centre, that gives people premium access.

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        Also, ModCoord finally started advertising for alternatives on their latest post. Mentioned Kbin, Lemmy, Squabbles and Tildes.

        Piracy is one that pointed directly to communities on Lemmy, but it is not that huge.

        Haven’t checked others, but I’d imagine some maybe started doing so as well and there’s where the growth comes from. I don’t really think it’s bots, so far.

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      More news, more protests, porn on /r/all, but this seems pretty high. There have been a few oddly spiky days the last few days, seems like probably bots.

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        There’s no way this isn’t related to the account creation spam exploit that was found recently.

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      Another factor is gatekeeping at Lemmy, although I haven’t heard any news about that. Major Lemmy instances were very slow at accepting new users since they were manually filtering bots away.

      I’m not suggesting there was indeed some change in gatekeeping like a policy change, new looser Lemmy instances or whatever. It’s just a factor people haven’t mentioned here.