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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cura@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org

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Maybe you guys already know about the bot signup over lemmy.world. Now they are all over the lemmyverse. The top 20 fastest growing instances in the threadiverse are probably suffering from it. The top one, lemmy.podycust.co.uk, has 10k users with 7 total posts. The total user count of threadiverse is now 544k, compared to 270k on June 19. We may be facing 200k+ bots at this point. Also these instances are in the federation. If any admin of these instance abandons ship, this creates huge liabilities to the threadiverse.

Lemmyverse needs to figure out how to deal with this. But before that happens, do you guys think Beehaw should preemptively defederate these affected instances? Or could there be a better solution?

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[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this is mostly because i'm currently i'm on "clearing our application backlog" duty, and that means in my other tab i get notifications from people replying to my posts (as a pop-up) lol

[–] Valmond@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah the popup works flawlessly! I think it's the only site in the world where I accepted notifications :-)

Good luck with the work!