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As has been asked every time, how many are bots?
Yeah there are some irresponsible instance owners out there letting bots register.
yeah, the largest one is k6qw, with 52 thousand users, but only 4 users online atm compared to lemmy.world, 42.8 thousand users, 5.63 thousand online
edit: source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Honestly, if these instances don't get their act together, I'd vote on my instance to defederate from it.
I'm usually not one calling for defederating, it seems like a liability, though.
The beauty of the fediverse and the power of ownership is being able to take decisions like these.
It's like digital socialism! (Or something)
My thought were the same way about not wanting to call for defederation, but after thinking about it and owning an instance of my own now, I realize that that is the whole point. Instance owners can block entire instances from federating with them. If every instance blocks an instance that is a bad actor then they literally can't federate with anyone and that solves the issue.
Many were probably set up expressly for one user. They may be just newbies who followed an install guide but without any clue about how to administer a server. Is there no way to contact these owners? Refreshing a user dB is simple.
Not me lol
Exactly what a bot would say
Welcome, non-bot!
Me either. I am a human person just like all of you!
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
Welcome fellow human. It is great to be a human is it not?
floppy disk drive noises
I guess it's kind of like the saying bad ice effects both teams. Both reddit and the federation are going to have bots. Competitors aren't differentiating bot accounts vs user accounts, so why should the federation?
How many people browsed reddit without an account, but made one for lemmy to show support?
At least one.
I'm sure that reddit and others are aware of bots and doing things to control that situation.
Musk complained and tried to worm his way out of the Twitter deal by accusing them of padding user accounts with bots. With an upcoming IPO, Reddit may not be interested in culling bots right now - not when some of us have already fleddit.😅
I do concur though, the fediverse does need to find a way of getting owners doing captcha or something similar by default.