Here you can see 2 day old post warning about the danger of not using email/captcha verification: 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

Another tracking site with the same explosion in users: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

What do you think? Is it some sort of a bug or do people run bot farms?

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.

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.

Edit 3.1: my numbers are outdated, there are currently 1 700 000 accounts which makes it even worse: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

  • Convecticus@lemmy.xcoolgroup.comEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • AstralWeekendsEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      What is your most memorable childhood event and how has that impacted you today?

      • Knighthawk 0811@lemmy.oneEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        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

      • Convecticus@lemmy.xcoolgroup.comEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.