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Bots are trying to join my instance now through the application requirement (lemmyverse.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by tugg@lemmyverse.org to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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I have the application process enabled for people to join my instance, and I've gotten about 20 bots trying to join today when I had nobody trying to join for 5 days. I can tell because they are generic messages and I put a question in asking what 2+3 is and none of them have answered it at all, they just have a generic message.

Be careful out there, for all you small instance admins.

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[–] Biscuit@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Detecting and blocking whole instances with many bots is somewhat trivial. Blocking and detecting some number of bots in an instance with 10k users, with an ever growing number of human users, is much harder.