• Ategon@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    the 2 million here includes the account bots that mass target open signup instances. (if an instance has no restrictions on signing up then they tend to make 8k accounts or something on it). fedidb detects that and excludes it

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      11 months ago

      Yep, Alien.top has over one million accounts alone and they’re all crossposting Reddit spam bot accounts.

      More instances need to defederate from that spam instance. Because no matter how many people explain why the project isn’t actually helpful nor does it add real value to Lemmy the person behind it is utterly convinced he’s the smartest person in the fediverse and we all just need to learn to love his spam.