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FYI, this instance is being defederated by everyone due to bots (sffa.community)

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

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Several instances are defederating from sffa.community because there is some suspicion of heavy bot infestation here. https://lemm.ee/post/177673?scrollToComments=true

This means a lot of the fediverse is not going to show up for users here (I had to make a separate account here just to post this because my instance has blocked you.)

Not sure what the solution is, but I ask the admins here to maybe contact the lemmy.ee admins who first noticed the bot problem so we can see you guys again! I miss seeing my SFFA content and don't want you guys to dwindle not realizing you are being quarantined.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hooray! I can see you now on my lemm.ee account. Thanks for acting so quickly!

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

Thank you for bringing it to our attention :)

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

Is there an issue with kbin.social as well? I noticed that the only posts from /c/[email protected] are from a month ago, but when I searched out the kbin site, I see that it's got active posts from today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There shouldn't be one, but kbin is also kinda weird. We are federated with them, so we should get their posts, but they don't always seem to update.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

we're good now :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We purged all the bots and set up CAPTCHA and I can say that we do not have a bot infestation right now. None of them made it past the signup. There's been no posting activity.

The only bot posting is one Nighed has been testing as a mod tool while it's being built.

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

Okay I figured out how to do it and left them a note! Thank you for letting us know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

FYI, looks like dmv.social, beehaw.org, and sopuli.xyz have also blocked you guys for similar reasons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for that list. We also found Lemmy.de and Lemmy.ca and I've reached out to contact them about it. Lemmy.ca has said they will refederate. So, we're getting there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

we are not on the Beehaw block list, but equally, I cant find us through them, so not sure whats going on there?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've tried leaving comments on that post both from this account and my kbin.social account but they aren't showing up. I can't find another way to contact that OP. :( You are welcome to have them reach out to me at [email protected]

You can see here we are down to only organic users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

https://sopuli.xyz also seems to not federate with here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Uh-oh, I hope this gets fixed. I'm not a bot!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can't seem to post over on that link. I don't know how to open that link here in our home instance. But we did notice the bot sign up and took care of it. They never got past e-mail verification and now that we've had CAPTCHA in, no wave of bots any longer. Our database has been purged.