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According to FediDB there has been a 1.7% growth this month. Meaning 244,051 new accounts have been created on fediverse on the past 30days. Almost 250thousand people in a month. I'm sure this is completely coincidental
how many of those are bots, because i knows bots/spammers are constantly making the accounts and not actual users.
Honest answer: Significantly less than Reddit.
Bots have no incentive to astroturf unpopular sites.
Not sure if that info is available or even possible to filter out, but i think this happens in every social media site