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Heads Up! Bots are coming. (fedidb.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Maybe you guys already know about the bot signup over lemmy.world. Now they are all over the lemmyverse. The top 20 fastest growing instances in the threadiverse are probably suffering from it. The top one, lemmy.podycust.co.uk, has 10k users with 7 total posts. The total user count of threadiverse is now 544k, compared to 270k on June 19. We may be facing 200k+ bots at this point. Also these instances are in the federation. If any admin of these instance abandons ship, this creates huge liabilities to the threadiverse.

Lemmyverse needs to figure out how to deal with this. But before that happens, do you guys think Beehaw should preemptively defederate these affected instances? Or could there be a better solution?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hi all, this problem is about to get a LOT worse with lemmy version v0.18 - They will be removing captcha support without anything to replace it.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2922

Please, if anyone here has a github account YOU NEED TO COMMENT ON THIS ISSUE.

I'm not joking, every server admin I've talked to does not like this change, yet none of them posted a comment in the issues (and releated issues) to communicate with the devs.

Folks, if we aren't going to stop the Lemmy devs from doing something very dumb, then things are about to get a whole lot worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To be fair, the developer said they welcome pull requests of alternative captcha implementations that's better than current implementation.

Also the admin had voiced their concern on GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I did my part https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3200#issuecomment-1601060087