Is #defconsocial down ? @support@support@defcon.social

Is there anyone on #defconsocial ? Is the instance down? I can’t view it on the site?

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The difference going from 10 to 11 million accounts only translated into a _reduction_ of new users sing up rate and active accounts on #defconsocial

I'm guessing a couple things might be going on at the same time and would love some help in figuring it out.

- There are a lot of Bot accounts being created. I saw a #MastoAdmin #FediBlock post about one instance creating 46k accounts in one day. <- How to investigate this?

- The bulk of new accounts are going to mastodon.social and the smaller instances contract as it grows. <- Maybe? But according to instances.social they have grown from about 850k users to 1M users (+150k) while total accounts have gone from 10->11M

- People creating multiple backup accounts and then not using them. <- I don't think this is wide spread or we would see a lot of new user accounts created but low activity. What I see is lower account creation than Nov / Dec.

Links or ideas for researching beyond total # of instances / users?

hello to #defconsocial
this is my first time being here hope you all are doing great

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