• grus@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    bruh that k6qw lemmy instance 45.9k users right now but ZERO posts. wtf.
    these bots are gonna be a problem
    And my conspiratorial side makes me think that they’re not here by accident

      • grus@kbin.social
        4·
        1 year ago

        Oh, found a post by the admin of that instance, it’s from a week ago

        its the default setting of every new instance to require approval, on my instance i dont require email verification so i thought i could at least have people write something to let me know they’re human. in the end no one uses my instance so I just opened it up, maybe after some registrations ill make it an application again.

        Boy oh boy, @gaylord you’re in for a fun time there, bud
        48k users right now btw, he’s getting a lot of bots

  • DAC Protogen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I’m new here, too! Just made the account. <3 Never liked Reddit, but open source stuff is always nice, plus, Lemmy looks way cleaner. So uhm… henlo!

  • KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    1 year ago

    “Non-bot Lemmy instance” Go talk to the beehaw’ers about that, they’re convinced we’re the bottiest of instances. =P

      • KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        More accurately they defederated from lemmy.world due to “concerns” about it’s open sign-ups policy and the potential for “abuse”.

        • neurodancer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          It was less about intangible “concerns” and more that most of their time spent moderating was from users of this instance and since they’re strained on time, it made sense to simply defederate until the necessary mod tools exist to make things easier.

        • Ado@lemmy.mlEnglish
          01·
          1 year ago

          It’s four volunteers dude, they’re allowed to do what they think is best for their instance. This is not their full time job

  • timothy_120@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    Here representing kbin! I honestly keep trying to go back to a lemmy.world from time to time but I prefer kbin’s experience overall. Fantastic news for all involved!

  • RxBrad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I actually just had to bail on lemmy.ml and come over to lemmy.world.

    Turns out the zScaler web filters they use at work have a blanket filter on the entire .ml TLD… Can’t be having that now…

      • Supermariofan67@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        .ml tends to be one of the most abused top level domains for malware, spam, etc (in terms of ratio of malicious to non malicious domains) similar to .top, .buzz, .club, etc. So, many DNS filters on company networks simply filter all domains of these TLDs (and maybe whitelist a few known good ones) since they tend to be almost certainly malicious.

        I filter them on my home network too via pihole (though not .ml)

      • dot20@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        IIRC it’s hosted at Hetzner, and they have datacenters in Germany, Finland and the US. That could be the reason that the wrong flag is showing up.

    • Scrof@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Hey that sweet Finnish flag was the reason I chose it! I feel cheated now :(

  • silicon_reverie@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    Great news! But how do lemmy.fediverse.observer and fedidb.org separate “bots” from “non-bots”? It feels like “we don’t have any bots” is a pretty laughable thing to say.