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Is Lemmy or the fediverse doing anything about the recent surge in users, that could possibly be bots? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Been watching over the recent surge in fediverse users for about a week now. Last week, it was climbing what i would call naturally, organically. Now for the last couple days, its been like 350k in the last 2 days.

Love to see the growth of users, but these have to be bot created accounts. I dont want this to be bot infested community. I see the value in bots when used correctly, but lets be real - general population and bots could ruin this community.

Is there anything planned? Is there work from some third party to throw off the "stableness" of Lemmy / fediverse?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There has been a big surge in bot accounts

https://lemmy.ml/post/1391903

Basically many of the newer instances allowed sign ups with no bot protection

This is why we can't have nice things and need to deal with CAPTCHA and email verification etc..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only bots I've seen are posting news, TIL, etc. No annoying bits so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have a crosspost bot, I'm mainly testing it and it's purpose is to use reddit as link agregator to help small communities get some content going.
It only posts external links, never OC nor a link to reddit.

Also in my case the bot will get one post no older than 5 hours every hour, to prevent flooding with posts.