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[–] rglullis 0 points 1 year ago

During the weekend all my communities jumped to 20-30 subscribers, but no participation. I went to see if almost all of the new subscribers were some variation of this bot.

I mean it is not doing anything wrong, it just feels like a huge letdown to see that none of the growth was organic. Are people really creating instances just for the sake of lurking around? What is the point?

[–] wintermute@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hosting an instance myself, I'm not amused, because if forces my instance to literally sync all content there is on the lemmyverse, drastically increasing traffic, storage use etc.

Please don't force resource consumption beyond any rational usage!

[–] Peregrinus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

people should just block Federation from "Lemmy.management" to start with. one less activitypub abuser.

[–] death916@lemmy.death916.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was working on something like this to add a bot user and follow active communities but got distracted. Looks like I can quit that side project hahah

[–] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. Keep at it. More alternatives is betterer.