Here you can see 2 day old post warning about the danger of not using email/captcha verification:
https://lemmy.ml/post/1345031
And here are stats of lemmy platform where it shows that we gained 200 000 lemmy users in 2 days:
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Another tracking site with the same explosion in users: https://the-federation.info/platform/73
What do you think? Is it some sort of a bug or do people run bot farms?
Edit2: It's been now 3 days and we went from 150 000 user accounts 3 days ago to 700 000 user accounts today making it 550 000+ bot accounts and counting. Almost 80% accounts on lemmy are now bots and it may end up being an very serious issue for lemmy platform once they become active.
Edit3: It's now 4th day of the attack and the amount of accounts on lemmy has almost reached 1 200 000. Almost 90% of total userbase are now bots.
Edit 3.1: my numbers are outdated, there are currently 1 700 000 accounts which makes it even worse: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
I ONLY SEE OTHER HUMANS WHO EAT FOOD WITH THEIR MOUTH HOLES
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01 received. Returning 0b1000101
Haha, yes, totally normal human th
“error:PDP_DETECTED_FATAL_ERROR”
ERR: Expected 0b1000101 in return. Received 0b0
(Edit- please tell me somebody gets my joke here! )
syntax error, malformed JSON.
The word "halibut" means "holy flatfish" (hali=holy + butte=flatfish) ... I too am not a bot... Follow for more fish facts!
I think it should be “message”: instead of “message”, (colon instead of comma)
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As a ~~large language model~~ human I agree