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Lemmy apparently hit with another bot wave tonight (+ 623686 overall users) (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by genoxidedev1@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social
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I looked at the lemmy stats again today like the last few days (since the 1st of July), apparently tonight there has been another wave of bot signups.:

Lemmy: 1,555,395 overall users (+ 2363)
Kbin: 55,201 overall users (+ 433)

Active last 30 days:
Lemmy: 56,859 users (+ 1142)
Kbin: 55,099 users (+ 331)

^ 2023-07-02 20:15:00 CEST

Lemmy: 2,179,081 overall users (+ 623686, bots)
Kbin: 55,863 (+ 764)

Active last 30 days:
Lemmy: 59,438 (+ 2579)
Kbin: 55,532 (+ 433)

^ 2023-07-03 13:30:00 CEST

Of course "tonight" refers to tonight in central european summer time so it probably was more middle-of-the-day for you.

If you go to the site I linked at the beginning and sort by "Total users" you can see instances with 80000 users and 1 active user for example.

Open signups should be prohibited and affected instances should do something against the botted accounts or defederate. New instances should at the very least start using captchas and email verification.

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[โ€“] Arotrios@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're starting in on Kbin too. Saw an influx of spam marketing reports pop up this morning like this one from emergenresearch.com from what looks like bot accounts.

[โ€“] genoxidedev1@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

That account is just outrageously blatant, I would have given them the benefit of the doubt if it was just one article, although I still would have been very cautious of my doubt, but they posted 6 of these type posts