Lemmy has multiplied it’s number of users (maybe more accurately accounts) in just few days. How much do you think is the percentage of bot accounts? Is Lemmy having problem with bot farming?

  • AceFour@lemmy.thesmokinglounge.club
    51·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, Lemmy bot net. I looked at one server and it was ridiculous the number of users vs active. My guess is the servers that had open signups got hammered with bot signups

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s also possible people are making accounts to see what it is but not doing anything yet, but I agree there are probably lots of bots

    • BlueÆtherA
      1·
      1 year ago

      I had about 20 bot accounts on mine before turning on more ‘security’, but it looks like that some instances had 10/20/30 thousand bot accounts in 24h