• @Crylos
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    142 years ago

    Any idea how many might be bots?

    • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦
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      2 years ago

      I don’t think we have that many. The instances that were victims of bot attacks grew by more than 10k in less than a day. This instance’s growth has been steady at 1k~2k per day with the captcha enabled.

      • 𝔊𝔦𝔫𝔧𝔲𝔱𝔰𝔲
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        282 years ago

        I believe we also have one of the best active users to total user ratios in the ‘Lemmyverse’, at least for instances of this size. Fun stuff.

      • @[email protected]
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        82 years ago

        The captcha seems to be protecting the bigger, older instances, it’s all new instances that you’ve never heard of that randomly have 10k+ bot accounts.

        https://the-federation.info/platform/73#drawer-opened

        If you scroll to the list of servers and sort by total users, you can see dozens of ghost servers with thousands of accounts and like 10 active users. Alternatively, leave it on the default sorting to see all of the servers that actually have activity.

        Should be pretty easy to defederate those instances if the bots start causing problems.