@dansup @editor @mastodonusercount Not new users, mind you, those were their old user numbers ported over.

@Gargron @dansup @editor @mastodonusercount According to @freemo Gab has been creating impersonation accounts of populae fediverse users.

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The cloned users are a smaller set and likely unrelated. I noticed today many users cloned from actual fediverse users, including myself, already complete with followers and everything. Then I started getting follows from people I already followed, but from GAB. Did some checking and like me most of those people didnt open the accounts either. Thats all I know, but I dont think the clones are the bulk of the million.

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@freemo @mastodonusercount @editor @dansup @Gargron @ZacharyHerold this isn't the first time they've cloned the users that they couldn't attract in the first place. old gag was populated by many twitter clones, to simulate activity in absence of actual celebrity/popular content on gag
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