Yeah, I’m trying to track where these new accounts are being created, because they’re not at top lemmy instances like lemmy.world or beehaw.org, which have validation measures at signup.
I believe most accounts created in the last 48 hours are bot accounts. Here is the list of top 20 fastest growing instances. Looks like 15 out of 20 were created in the last few days and has almost no active users.
Bots only target successful platforms and mastodon has survived many bot campaigns, so I’m not too worried by this. But let’s give a hug to our admins. When all those accounts start spamming, they’ll need to do a lot of mitigation. Especially if the bots come from many different domains. (and also because lemmy moderation tools are not great)
Yeah, I’m trying to track where these new accounts are being created, because they’re not at top lemmy instances like lemmy.world or beehaw.org, which have validation measures at signup.
I believe most accounts created in the last 48 hours are bot accounts. Here is the list of top 20 fastest growing instances. Looks like 15 out of 20 were created in the last few days and has almost no active users.
@2014MU69 @MicroWave
Lemmy’s first big bot campaign, yay.
Bots only target successful platforms and mastodon has survived many bot campaigns, so I’m not too worried by this. But let’s give a hug to our admins. When all those accounts start spamming, they’ll need to do a lot of mitigation. Especially if the bots come from many different domains. (and also because lemmy moderation tools are not great)
@[email protected] - thanks for the info.
@[email protected] - you think we’re about to see many of them defederated?