You do realize that there's currently an exodus coming in from Reddit, right?
This post is making the correlation/causation fallacy.
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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Humans would browse anonymously, and then if/when they make an account they will test things like making comments, upvotes etc.
Take a looks at this instance:
https://the-federation.info/node/details/48405#
https://picify.podycust.co.uk/
45k+ accounts (rising fast) and it's a ghost town. 9 posts, 33 comments.
The data says otherwise. Thousands upon thousands of accounts from instances with thousands of users but no to very few monthly active users. That screams bots to me.
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I, too, am certain a human, and not a robot, who finally got my instance working a couple days ago.
But my server has all of four completely-normal humans (totally NOT robots!!!) who have signed up, so far.
But, yes, it would be nice if more humans like me were to sign up, rather than bots.
What is your most memorable childhood event and how has that impacted you today?
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Hah, fellow human! I am definitely not a robot and do not need to pass the Turing test.
When I first joined the Fediverse I saw a decent amount of people saying that they didn't want kbin/lemmy to have email verification. Is this what they wanted? Fake growth?
I was one of those people, I didn't understand the logic behing defederating instances with open registrations but now it turns out that those instances were right about doing that even though their reason sfor defederations were different.
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Hahaha love the comments on this thread. You bots are alright
I am the human.
hello human! would you like to look at a t-shirt that contains memes curated for you
I heard somewhere that the devs full on removed Captcha from the next release. I hope theres an alternative plan in mind, as I would hate so much to see Lemmy get overrun. It makes me think of the last time I checked USENET; it was almost entirely made up of low-effort cutty paste ads with bad grammar and links to malicious websites. The devs and admins have worked too hard for this system to see tgat happen here and I think all of us want to see it really thrive.
kbin FTW
Unfortunately, us on kbin will have to deal with this too thanks to federation, but at least kbin's got some bot protection thanks to hCaptcha.
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yeah this isn't good. they're gonna have to do something about this asap before all those bots come alive and effective dos the site out of existance
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Everyone on Lemmy is a bot except you.
Hah! This is kind of like how the one non-telepathic person is still completely unaware. Really is nice that The Onion keeps track.
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