• memchrEnglish
    30·
    3 years ago

    I think it’s either bots or some spooky spammers that are falsely reporting the number of users. e.g. lemmy.k6qw.com currently claims to have 44k users with no posts…

      • memchrEnglish
        121·
        3 years ago

        There are many more bad instances like this in the statistics. I think it will become a problem for Lemmy sooner or later.

        • chonglibloodsportEnglish
          10·
          3 years ago

          Probably! But in the mean time I bet some real people will join just because they see the numbers going up.

        • House.of.QuestionsEnglish
          5·
          3 years ago

          I believe instances can block other instances entirely, right? Or have I misunderstood that? This would mean none of those bots in there could ever post in our threads here. I’m sure there will be cooperation between the instances on this.

          • memchrEnglish
            4·
            3 years ago

            yes, it’s called defederation.

      • ThreeChonkyCatsEnglish
        9·
        3 years ago

        I think with the extreme novelty, there will be LOTS of devs trying out new scripts and auto-doings.

        I suspect that will be learned pretty fast, published to a group, then many of the bots will simply die out.