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Instance Meta - Is this instance getting flooded with spam bot accounts? (startrek.website)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/startrek@startrek.website
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So, lemmy seems to be flooded with spam bot accounts at the moment. Look through the table of servers on fedidb (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy) and notice how there are these huge instances without any active users (MAU).

Also notice how startrek.website has 9000 users for 276 active users this month.

From memory, when I signed up, there was no email requirement or captcha or anything.

Admins ... maybe you want to tighten things up?

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

‘Posted’ is even a higher bar than ‘commented’, a 10th of a 10th.

Not to say that there isn’t a need to filter out sockpuppets and bots at signup, but rather that the inference being made from the stats was not obvious.

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