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this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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yeah this isn't good. they're gonna have to do something about this asap before all those bots come alive and effective dos the site out of existance
DDoS usually cost money to run, Lemmy/Kbin are small potatos with no cash to ransom, so there’s not really a point except to troll, in which case users can just spin up more servers and push back on the attacker’s cost/impact.
I do get the sense it would be relatively easy to DoS Lemmy, it doesn’t seem very efficient.
well there could be other reasons. account parking, corporate warfare, etc.
bots sent from reddit to undermine lemmy! Probably not but I don't like it. Plus, could just be troll thing to take the sites down too.
We need Blade Runners obviously
“This is the worst kind of discrimination there is: the kind against me!” - Bender Bending Rodríguez
When I first joined the Fediverse I saw a decent amount of people saying that they didn't want kbin/lemmy to have email verification. Is this what they wanted? Fake growth?
I was one of those people, I didn't understand the logic behing defederating instances with open registrations but now it turns out that those instances were right about doing that even though their reason sfor defederations were different.
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ELIF why anyone should care if there are bots on the fedi?
Owners can use those bots to boost choosen posts/comments with a lot of upvotes or downvote something into oblivion if they don't like something. Bots can be also used for spam and advertising stuff. Overall, if the bots become active the platform will be fucked as the quality of everything will go down. One problem that affects us now is that we lost a reliable way of telling how much factual users are on the platform.
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