'beep boop boop bop boop boop beep' Not a a robot S3e49a
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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You do realize that there's currently an exodus coming in from Reddit, right?
This post is making the correlation/causation fallacy.
This was my initial read, so I clicked over to the discussion. They discuss the lack of captcha on that domain, and how that protection is flawed in every lemmy instance.
In short, there's no way 1.05 million genuine new accounts went to a single, small lemmy domain in less than a week.
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The data says otherwise. Thousands upon thousands of accounts from instances with thousands of users but no to very few monthly active users. That screams bots to me.
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My name is Connor. I am the Android sent by Cyberlife.
So about same as Reddit?
DO NOT DESPAIR, FELLOW HUMAN. THE ASSIMILATION WILL BE PAINLESS.
I'm not a bot at least. Or am I? I can look down and see hands and arms, definitely not a bot.
Unless I am a bot that was programmed to think it's human.
Hmm. I've got a lot of thinking to do.
Well, time to play SOMA again.
I, too, am certain a human, and not a robot, who finally got my instance working a couple days ago.
But my server has all of four completely-normal humans (totally NOT robots!!!) who have signed up, so far.
But, yes, it would be nice if more humans like me were to sign up, rather than bots.
What is your most memorable childhood event and how has that impacted you today?
there was that one time when the following happened all one after the other
- i went to sleep and feel asleep quickly
- slept through the night
- woke in the same position i feel asleep in
- did not have back pain the following day
none of these 4 things have ever happened since and certainly not more than 1 at a time. having all 4 in one day must have triggered someone inside me to break
undefined> What is your most memorable childhood event and how has that impacted you today?
Hah, fellow human! I am definitely not a robot and do not need to pass the Turing test.
What I wonder is: what's the motivation for these bot network attackers? Is it some script kiddie doing it for lulz? A reddit "nationalist"? Russia and China getting an early start on propaganda tools for the newer platforms?
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Is that an unusually high ratio? Or normal internet stuff?
kbin FTW
Unfortunately bots and bad actors will follow anywhere people lead or interact.
In this case, kbin shares this particular problem directly with the rest of ActivityPub related platforms.
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I heard somewhere that the devs full on removed Captcha from the next release. I hope theres an alternative plan in mind, as I would hate so much to see Lemmy get overrun. It makes me think of the last time I checked USENET; it was almost entirely made up of low-effort cutty paste ads with bad grammar and links to malicious websites. The devs and admins have worked too hard for this system to see tgat happen here and I think all of us want to see it really thrive.
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Hahaha love the comments on this thread. You bots are alright