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[–] rglullis 0 points 3 years 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 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years 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 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] death916@lemmy.death916.xyz 0 points 3 years 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 3 years ago (1 children)

No. Keep at it. More alternatives is betterer.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I wrote http://github.com/fmstrat/lcs a while back which does similar, but only grabs Top feed communities to reduce load.

[–] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know this is an older post but I thought I would ask here for help, I tried using lcs using the arm build here and got the issue described here. I thought it was because I was using an old build but someone in the thread had the same issue in august this year. I can add communities manually so it isn't an issue with my instance configuration. Did you ever find a way to fix this?

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you the person in the linked issue that I'm already responding to there? 😉