Yoshizuki

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Yoshizuki@kbin.social to c/kbin@kbin.social
 

I'm quite concerned by the huge increase of seemingly bots on some Lemmy instances. Dvmsocial and beehaw defederated from some. What about bin? How to protect ourselves from the bot swarm that's coming?

Sources :
https://kbin.social/m/random/t/78537/Blocking-instances-for-potentially-suspicious-activity
https://kbin.social/m/support@beehaw.org/t/77620/Defederation-from-instances-suspected-of-becoming-bots-haven

Edit :
A Lemmy guy created a script that can auto defederate from these unprotected instances. Maybe it is the short term solution :
https://kbin.social/m/agora@sh.itjust.works/t/78131/Vote-Use-the-Fediverse-Overseer-to-pre-emptively-defederate-from-suspected

[–] Yoshizuki@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

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[–] Yoshizuki@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have two options to get rid of this :

Subscribe to magazines that you want to follow. In setting, change your homepage to 'subscribed' (or whatever it is named). Then only scroll your subscribed communities.
Or
next to the subscribe button, there is another button to block a magazine.

Personally I do both. I went on the magazine page, I subscribed to many small communities even if I'm not really interested in. And I block the big ones that are flooding the 'all' homepage (=reddit =redditmigration ....)

[–] Yoshizuki@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I started learning to use photoshop instead of braindeadly scrolling Reddit. It’s more peaceful and enjoyable.

[–] Yoshizuki@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Retirement party?