Fediverse

This is my first post, I just signed up. I was on reddit from the early days. I liked it then a lot more. This has that feel. I also like that it is open source - hopefully that will bring more developers.

Probably due to this- https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/19/23765895/reddit-hack-phishing-leak-api-pricing-steve-huffman

I'm just here so i don't get fined. created an account because the developer for my reddit app is working on One for lemmy. So figured I'd give this a try

Been signing up to reddit alts all week. Finally got to Lemmy.

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Hopefully they're all a real people and not bots or something.

I'm going back to some older style board websites. I'm looking for a reddit replacement (deleted account there) and never knew of this site. I heard about it from Shacknews.

I joined a couple days ago. I decided to just sign up and jump in. Everyone else doing it, why can't I?

It's snowballing. A few friends tell a few friends, and so on, and so on, and so on...

This is getting so much larger! It's doubled again while active users aren't changing much. We may need to figure out this bot problem.

A lot of us haven’t been able to create accounts due to high activity. It looks like account creation requests have finally started going through.

There was a post that has code snippet that tells lemmy admins to turn on email verification and captcha.

And then lemmy.world admin turned off signup for a little while to clean up bot accounts.

Then account numbers jumped 84k in one day.

Coincidence? I don't think so.

Stopped using reddit after 12 years when the blackout began, and kept up with the developments through the tech news. Removing the mods and screwing around with things just because they're mad about a protest was the last straw, so now here I am!

Soon we will look back amazed at these growing little numbers. They're growing quickly but I expect it to grow by one or two more orders of magnitude over the coming months!

I'm attempting to move on from Reddit. Heard good things about Lemmy. I'm checking things out.

This has to have something to do with the newly discovered API exploit to rapidly create accounts without any limits, right? Instances without captcha or email verification are vulnerable still, AFAIK.

Is https://botsin.space/@threadcount on drugs? It is showing lemmy/kbin at 437,000 right now

I dunno, but I've noticed that lemmy.ml had a bunch of bot and spam bots today to ban, and both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world have defederated with a bunch more instances compared to the other day. I wonder if the registration exploit has been patched.

I finally decided to make an account after a week of ignoring Reddit, what is going on over there is ridiculous at this point, Reddit should have just given 3rd party apps an exception and called it a day.