I finally got lemmy to reset my password, so plan to use it more. Reddit takeover of subs was ridiculous, the surge is only going to continue
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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I love this because more people will comment. A majority of my time on Reddit was reading through comments and hearing all of people’s interesting takes and learning random information. The daily increase is fun to watch especially since I’m not the one maintaining the servers!
totally agree. I've been trying to engage more myself to encourage others to do the same
They found put we had snacks. Specifically Bugles. Reddit didn't have any! not even enough for one hand :/
Reddit is fucked
All hail the new website
There was a post that has code snippet that tells lemmy admins to turn on email verification and captcha.
And then lemmy.world admin turned off signup for a little while to clean up bot accounts.
Then account numbers jumped 84k in one day.
Coincidence? I don't think so.
I left something out
The code snippet was 24 lines of Python code that demonstrate how to generate random username and password and call lemmy's API to register account.
Oh, that must have been me.
meeee
They’re starting to de-mod folks.
This instance gives a clue maybe?
https://fedidb.org/network/instance/lemmy.wiuf.net
It looks like it's only a day old and it has 11k users. There isn't any content on it either. There are a few instances like that, you can see them here: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy. They all have low MAU, 10k or so users, and low Status Count.
Quite a few are showing about 10k new users in the past day or so. Probably they're small instances without bot protection or instances made to support bots.
Can this be reported to those tech savvy enough to know what to do? Fantastic find. These instances might well be preparing bots for attack.
I joined a couple days ago. I decided to just sign up and jump in. Everyone else doing it, why can't I?
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It's snowballing. A few friends tell a few friends, and so on, and so on, and so on...
I finally decided to make an account after a week of ignoring Reddit, what is going on over there is ridiculous at this point, Reddit should have just given 3rd party apps an exception and called it a day.
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Remember this is CEO proof as long the servers can maintain, donate to your homebase server if you can.
A lot of us haven’t been able to create accounts due to high activity. It looks like account creation requests have finally started going through.