Stats from here: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Like, has an instance gone down and if so, why hasn't there been a comparable drop in users and comments?
Edit: Thanks to @example@reddthat.com here for pointing to zerobytes.monster becoming more aggressive against bots as the likely culprit.
Believe it or not, they’re all Nicole posts removed by Lemmy.World /s
Everyone on the fediverse is Nicole and you can't prove otherwise.
Sorry if this has already been discussed but is anyone else worried that “Nicole’s” pictures are from the webcam on a compromised computer? They’re always from the same angle and she’s not really posing for most of them
I believe someone found an account she did livestreams on somewhere, and the pictures are most likely screen grabs from those. The odds of the person in the pictures being behind the spam are pretty much nil.
I think that is the general consensus — that she is likely an unwitting victim
Wuuut ? Everything mentioning nicole or just posts from "her" accounts ?
Only photos and written info that could identify her. The spam accounts probably get banned as they reported. I don’t know of any posts made by any account claiming to be her?
Tnx for the info , i meant the repost bots by "her"
Repost bots? Do you have an example, either by way of link or screenshot?
No, not rly , i just hear about it from other people getting messages/seeing posts but i never recieved any
The spam DMs are real, but I think the “reposts” are scuttlebutt based on people not understanding the screenshots of the DMs that they’ve seen in their feed
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of posts were routed to dev/null and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
I think this is zerobytes.monster, one of the reddit mirror instances.
the post count fits and it also matches with the user count not significantly dropping.
that instance has been using rather strict waf blocking rules from time to time that likely also affect the crawler for fediverse.observer.
I missed your reply weeks ago, and I know upvotes are worthless, but you deserve most of mine from this thread =P
Its been a long time since I have actually seen crowd sourcing actually work in a non exploitative way to solve a problem, be productive.
@blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com decided that he doesn't need his alt accounts anymore.
Please don't compare me to a Reddit mirror instance 🥲
Nicole posts were banned and deleted en mass?
It may have been lemmy.zip
It did in fact go down for about 48 hours... prompting me to make this new account on dbzer0.
Basically, the admin attempted to update to a newer lemmy version... and it failed, multiple times, and they just rolled back, restored the old version, posted an explanation and apology, and they'll be further looking into ... exactly what went wrong.
But zip has < 50K posts.
Maybe they unzipped the archive? /S
Is divide by zero becoming the most based instance? How did a single bro make best lemmy?!?
I'd say dbzer0 is probably the most leftist, at least from what I've seen. I personally don't go as far as being an anarchist but can appreciate the philosophy. I probably have more in common with anarchy than democratic/plurality governance, if I'm being honest with myself.
Lately I've been seeing a lot of comments coming from that instance that are indistinguishable from the ones I see from .ml.
Aha! Checking back a week or so later, glad this was actually solved!
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