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  • 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.





















  • The version I present nowadays usually is better socially adapted and better able to integrate itself into a conversation

    That seems positive. But it’s your call.

    For me, “conforming” means listening, considering my audience, controlling interjections, and asking people about stuff. I don’t feel like I’m denying myself, I feel like I’m being more considerate.

    I can see how other kinds of conformance could be awful. Denying one’s sexuality or something like that.