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Edit 3.1: my numbers are outdated, there are currently 1 700 000 accounts which makes it even worse: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy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] 28 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Test: if it says "hey guys, remember how great Reddit was, we should totally go back!?" - then it's a bot:-P.

[–] ZcaT 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

hey guys, remember how great Reddit was, we should totally go back!?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Nice try, bot! :-P

(Edit: I want to boost your comment, but I don't want my record to show that I boosted a comment like THAT!:-D)

[–] QuadratureSurfer 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, technically anyone can also see your upvotes and downvotes...

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

Oh. (Still worth upvoting it though:-)

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