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Edit 3.1: my numbers are outdated, there are currently 1 700 000 accounts which makes it even worse: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy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] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

don't tell me to fuck off that's rude

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

Are you referring to a separate thread I commented on yesterday with a totally separate user where I said "Nazi punks fuck off?"

If you took offense to that brother I'm sorry I stand by my words. Even moreso today, even.

What I'm curious in is why you commented on an unrelated comment in a different thread, with either a secondary account or you weren't connected to it at all?

[–] Endlessvoid 1 points 1 year ago

Bro I'm pretty sure they were just playing off your binary joke by pretending that it reads "fuck off" in binary.

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