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~~Almost~~ OVER 90% of the accounts on lemmy are now bot accounts!! (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Here you can see 2 day old post warning about the danger of not using email/captcha verification: https://lemmy.ml/post/1345031

And here are stats of lemmy platform where it shows that we gained 200 000 lemmy users in 2 days: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Another tracking site with the same explosion in users: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

What do you think? Is it some sort of a bug or do people run bot farms?

Edit2: It's been now 3 days and we went from 150 000 user accounts 3 days ago to 700 000 user accounts today making it 550 000+ bot accounts and counting. Almost 80% accounts on lemmy are now bots and it may end up being an very serious issue for lemmy platform once they become active.

Edit3: It's now 4th day of the attack and the amount of accounts on lemmy has almost reached 1 200 000. Almost 90% of total userbase are now bots.

Edit 3.1: my numbers are outdated, there are currently 1 700 000 accounts which makes it even worse: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

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

“This is the worst kind of discrimination there is: the kind against me!” - Bender Bending Rodríguez

[–] JoYo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

ELIF why anyone should care if there are bots on the fedi?

[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

well what if they all came online and posted at once? could lemmy's servers handle it? 900k 'users' all alive at the same time?

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

We need Blade Runners obviously

[–] AquariusViaRainbow@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"On the internet, everyone knows you're a cat — and that's totally okay." - toot.cat

[–] Teppic@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It seems almost certain that there are farms creating these accounts - but why? The sheer volume of them is going to make them easy to identify and delete, and if the admins of the instances don't delete them the instances will be defederated in short order.
I fail to see any value to having 1 million+ bot accounts. What are we missing?

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[–] fraydabson@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Comparing Users to Daily Active Users... Is this real life or am I watching Silicon Valley again?

[–] Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Just because the bots are currently idle doesn't mean that the owners aren't preparing uses for them...

[–] FrostBolt@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What I wonder is: what's the motivation for these bot network attackers? Is it some script kiddie doing it for lulz? A reddit "nationalist"? Russia and China getting an early start on propaganda tools for the newer platforms?

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[–] FinallyDebunked@slrpnk.net -2 points 1 year ago

Just delete them if they don't appear active for a while

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