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PSA: Many Lemmy instances are currently experiencing massive automated sign-ups (bots)! If you run an instance with open sign-ups, please read! (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/main
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/177673

Today, a bunch of new instances appeared in the top of the user count list. It appears that these instances are all being bombarded by bot sign-ups.

For now, it seems that the bots are especially targeting instances that have:

  • Open sign-ups
  • No captcha
  • No e-mail verification

I have put together a spreadsheet of some of the most suspicious cases here.

If this is affecting you, I would highly recommend considering one of the following options:

  1. Close sign-ups entirely
  2. Only allow sign-ups with applications
  3. Enable e-mail verification + captcha for sign-ups

Additionally, I would recommend pre-emptively banning as many bot accounts as possible, before they start posting spam!

Please comment below if you have any questions or anything useful to add.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (13 children)

I make fun of conspiracy theorists, but what the actual fuck? Makes me wonder how many real people I've actually interacted with on reddit? Maybe none.

[–] nanoUFO 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Dead internet theory but I doubt chatbots are that advanced yet. They can't write compelling and complex comments that depend on convoluted chains of logic, and respond to novels ideas and topics. Eventually.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] snakesnakewhale 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I see no problem. Everyone assumes Skynet is a murderbot because any pragmatism we can imagine for the robots would demand we be removed. What if there's another pragmatic solution, i.e. the xkcd punchline? Just . . . rewire people to be nice.

Even the robots in The Matrix claim to have tried to give us a utopia, but it made our minds melt down.

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