This dude is personally going on a robot extermination rampage. Thanks yo!
My man saw Terminator
Keep it up! You guys don't get enough credit. Thanks for the update.
My man is the bot wrangler. Wrangler of bots. One who gets bots wrangled.
Dang, good on you for following through and messaging the admins, and good on the admins who took action.
Does this mean if I spend 6 months as a lemmy lurker you will nuke my account?
If you created your account on these specific instances during a particular week in June 2023, and the instance admin decides your account looks suspicious, then you might get nuked. Otherwise, no worries. I'm not campaigning to remove all lurkers, or even trying to be thorough about removing possible bot accounts. I'm going after low-hanging fruit: a particular pool of suspicious-looking accounts on a handful of instances.
Don't listen to him, he's just going around blasting anything that breathes too slow 😂
"Pew, pew, pew!" lol
Keep your stick on the ice
You sound Canadian.
American, but it's a line from a Canadian TV show that leaked across the border.
I've simultaneously watched too much and not enough Red Green. I grew up near the Canadian border and had neighbors like Red Green.
Red Green forevah!!!
And remember: if the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
My buddy got to meet them once with some crazy shit he made out of duct tape. I cannot for the life of me remember what it was though
The best nationality on the north west hemisphere fr
That's awesome. Keep up the good work!
Wow lol that's a huge number of bots. Two questions come into mind though:
- What about bot accounts that are not inactive but instead are spamming for example?
- What about real people that just lurk?
Per my original post from three weeks ago, I'm using a coarse method to identify (and try to draw the admins' attention to) a particular pool of accounts that were created in a specific week on a handful of instances. Actively spamming bot accounts, and bot accounts on other instances, won't be caught with my method. I'm not being thorough, just looking for low-hanging fruit.
It is possible that some legitimate users' lurking accounts got swept up and deleted, but I think that's very unlikely. If an instance suddenly goes from 3 users to 60,000 users in a week, then the growth abruptly stops and none of those new users show activity, that's suspicious. If there are real people in that wave of accounts then at least a few of them should be posting or commenting, and more people should continue opening accounts over time.
If those accounts aren't doing anything detectable (spamming, etc), what's the problem with their existence?
There's no problem with them at the moment. The concern is that they may be bot accounts that will be activated at some point in the future for malicious use: spamming, spewing politically charged garbage, mass upvoting/downvoting of certain content, etc.
Do you have any idea what these accounts are doing?
Oh damn, I normally lurk w this account because I have some issues with some posts and comments not showing when they're from different instances (yes I've set my language to undetermined too). I have my main on feddit.de but I only see a fraction of the comments when I look at the same post on that account. Mainly the comments from the users of other instances than feddit.de are hidden. Doesn't seem to be a federation issue (I think?) because I can find the communities and they should be federated. Maybe it's a Jerboa issue idk.
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