Almost 90% of the accounts on lemmy are now bot accounts!! - FMHY

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/176547 [https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/176547] > Here you can see 2 day old post warning about the danger of not using email/captcha verification: > https://lemmy.ml/post/1345031 [https://lemmy.ml/post/1345031] > > And here are stats of lemmy platform where it shows that we gained 200 000 lemmy users in 2 days: > https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats [https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats] > > Another tracking site with the same explosion in users: https://the-federation.info/platform/73 [https://the-federation.info/platform/73] > > What do you think? Is it some sort of a bug or do people run bot farms? > > Edit: If you want to track if there’s any sudden bump in amount of users on our instance you can do so here: https://the-federation.info/node/details/50294 [https://the-federation.info/node/details/50294] > > Edit2: It’s been now 3 days and we went from 150 000 user accounts 3 days ago to 700 000 user accounts today making it 550 000+ bot accounts and counting. Almost 80% accounts on lemmy are now bots and it may end up being an very serious issue for lemmy platform once they become active. > > One of the admins announced in the comments that they will be defederating bot instances, you can track defederated by us instances here: https://fba.ryona.agency/?reverse=lemmy.fmhy.ml [https://fba.ryona.agency/?reverse=lemmy.fmhy.ml] > > Edit3: It’s now 4th day of the attack and the amount of accounts on lemmy has almost reached 1 200 000. Almost 90% of total userbase are now bots and so far our instance didn’t experience any sudden increase in the amount of created accounts.