Gregory's Server
@freemo @selea Another wild possibility is if new users were coming from Google and Google decided to change the search rankings algorithm in a way that affects fediverse software negatively
That would explain the effect on multiple servers, but I have no data on how many sign-ups come from search engines anyway
@Gargron
I can speculate for us based on general usage. Prior to us being on joinmastodon our signup rate was about what it is at the moment 8 - 11 a day. The day we got back on joinmastodon it went to about 60 a day.
So for us the traffic we are getting now suggests it is most likely related to joinmastodon as we never had that many hits from google anyway.
@selea