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~~Almost~~ OVER 90% of the accounts on lemmy are now bot accounts!! (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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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Edit 3.1: my numbers are outdated, there are currently 1 700 000 accounts which makes it even worse: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

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[–] gmatkins@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Is that an unusually high ratio? Or normal internet stuff?

[–] Kranerian@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Everyone on Lemmy is a bot except you.

[–] rwtwm@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Ah, I can't tell if the reference was overlooked or ignored, but nice callback anyway.

[–] admin@lemmy.xcoolgroup.com 1 points 2 years ago

Hah! This is kind of like how the one non-telepathic person is still completely unaware. Really is nice that The Onion keeps track.

[–] ginerel@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Who said I'm not a bot?

[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's not true. I am also a bot.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I disagree with both of you - I am on kbin

[–] AquariusViaRainbow@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"On the internet, everyone knows you're a cat — and that's totally okay." - toot.cat

[–] CMGX78@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am the human.

[–] match@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago

hello human! would you like to look at a t-shirt that contains memes curated for you

[–] Xperr7@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

When I first joined the Fediverse I saw a decent amount of people saying that they didn't want kbin/lemmy to have email verification. Is this what they wanted? Fake growth?

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[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

yeah this isn't good. they're gonna have to do something about this asap before all those bots come alive and effective dos the site out of existance

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[–] NeXTSTEPER@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

We need Blade Runners obviously

[–] JoYo@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (10 children)

ELIF why anyone should care if there are bots on the fedi?

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[–] dominoko@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

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[–] Hawne@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

“This is the worst kind of discrimination there is: the kind against me!” - Bender Bending Rodríguez

[–] Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Hahaha love the comments on this thread. You bots are alright

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