Yoshizuki

joined 2 years ago
 

I'm quite concerned by the huge increase of seemingly bots on some Lemmy instances. Dvmsocial and beehaw defederated from some. What about bin? How to protect ourselves from the bot swarm that's coming?

Sources :
https://kbin.social/m/random/t/78537/Blocking-instances-for-potentially-suspicious-activity
https://kbin.social/m/support@beehaw.org/t/77620/Defederation-from-instances-suspected-of-becoming-bots-haven

Edit :
A Lemmy guy created a script that can auto defederate from these unprotected instances. Maybe it is the short term solution :
https://kbin.social/m/agora@sh.itjust.works/t/78131/Vote-Use-the-Fediverse-Overseer-to-pre-emptively-defederate-from-suspected

[–] Yoshizuki@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really fear that they all awake at the same time and flood / attack our instances.. This seems to be a temporary solution but time consuming for you. Beehaw defederated too from a list of instances. Maybe this list could help you :

lemmy.k6qw.com,lemmy.podycust.co.uk,waveform.social,bbs.darkwitch.net,cubing.social,lemmy.roombob.cat,lemmy.jtmn.dev,lemmy.juggler.jp,bolha.social,sffa.community,dot.surf,granitestate.social,veenk.help,lemmyunchained.net,wumbo.buzz,lemmy.sbs,lemmy.shwizard.chat,clatter.eu,mtgzone.com,oceanbreeze.earth,mindshare.space,lemmy.tedomum.net,voltage.vn,lemmy.fyi,demotheque.com,thediscussion.site,latte.isnot.coffee,news.deghg.org,lemmy.primboard.de,baomi.tv,marginalcuriosity.net,lemmy.cloudsecurityofficehours.com,lemmy.game-files.net,lemmy.fedi.bub.org,lemmy.blue,lemmy.easfrq.live,narod.city,lemmy.ninja,lemmy.reckless.dev,nlemmy.nl,lemmy.mb-server.com,rammy.site,fedit.io,diggit.xyz,slatepacks.com,theotter.social,lemmy.nexus,kleptonix.com,rabbitea.rs,zapad.nstr.no,feddi.no

based on the list of instances made by @sunaurus here - Thank you again for that work, it’s highly appreciated.

This is a preventive measure against massive amounts of accounts being created for botting purposes. Most instances banned appear to be 1 user instances so we don’t think this will have a great effect on anyone’s usage of Beehaw. If you are an admin of one of those instances, feel free to contact us at support@beehaw.org

here the original post :
https://beehaw.org/post/701910

[–] Yoshizuki@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

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[–] Yoshizuki@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I started learning to use photoshop instead of braindeadly scrolling Reddit. It’s more peaceful and enjoyable.

[–] Yoshizuki@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I feel like this with my one member (me) magazine : https://kbin.social/m/AntKeeping

[–] Yoshizuki@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

This is what I did after the disastrous AMA.
Deleted my history with reddact.
Uninstalled Reddit.
Uninstalled Apollo (crying).
I won't go on this platform anymore.
Although I'm missing some 'niche' communities such as antkeeping or those about specific incremental games..

Now I'm trying to filter all the communities that are on this topic.
Even if it's on the fediverse, speaking about Reddit gives them more visibility.

 

Might be important to spread the word in Texas / Houston's vicinity

 

kbin implemented infinite scrolling !!!

#kbinMeta

[–] Yoshizuki@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

I'm stunned by the huge number of people still using the app but... ironically upvoting subs going dark