this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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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Edit 3.1: my numbers are outdated, there are currently 1 700 000 accounts which makes it even worse: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (4 children)
{ "type": "comment response", "message", "I too, am certainly a human, and not a robot"}
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

01 received. Returning 0b1000101

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha, yes, totally normal human th

“error:PDP_DETECTED_FATAL_ERROR”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ERR: Expected 0b1000101 in return. Received 0b0

[–] Flim 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it should be “message”: instead of “message”, (colon instead of comma)

[–] Crackhappy 3 points 1 year ago

Thatsthejoke.gif

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The word "halibut" means "holy flatfish" (hali=holy + butte=flatfish) ... I too am not a bot... Follow for more fish facts!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

syntax error, malformed JSON.