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Bots are trying to join my instance now through the application requirement (lemmyverse.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] AlternateRoute 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"I’d wager it’s more about the ability to be disruptive than the ability to extract money from the users you can target, so like, your average 16-year-old internet trolls."

Ok, but I am generally expecting the standard hot singles in my area link spam to appear soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Fair enough: that one a bunch of ex-redditors might fall for.