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Bots are trying to join my instance now through the application requirement (lemmyverse.org)

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

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I have the application process enabled for people to join my instance, and I've gotten about 20 bots trying to join today when I had nobody trying to join for 5 days. I can tell because they are generic messages and I put a question in asking what 2+3 is and none of them have answered it at all, they just have a generic message.

Be careful out there, for all you small instance admins.

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[–] fperson 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are these bot operators going through the hassle of joining existing instances

I wonder if there's already a "the bots are from Reddit" conspiracy :D

I really see no point in these actions. I mean, seriously, why would you want to just harm something open?

[–] dot20 2 points 1 year ago

For the same reasons you'd want to harm any other platform.