In addition to lemmy.world, the #2 real lemmy instance, lemmy.ml, seems to be growing as well.
Our neighbor, kbin.social, has also reached the 40k milestone today.
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bruh that k6qw lemmy instance 45.9k users right now but ZERO posts. wtf.
these bots are gonna be a problem
And my conspiratorial side makes me think that they’re not here by accidentYeah it’s ridiculously blatant that instance is full of fake users.
Oh, found a post by the admin of that instance, it’s from a week ago
its the default setting of every new instance to require approval, on my instance i dont require email verification so i thought i could at least have people write something to let me know they’re human. in the end no one uses my instance so I just opened it up, maybe after some registrations ill make it an application again.
Boy oh boy, @gaylord you’re in for a fun time there, bud
48k users right now btw, he’s getting a lot of botsAnd he hasn’t posted anything for nearly a week.
They’ve already replaced him.
I still see him as the only admin of that k6qw instance.
I was trying to be subtle… but what I meant was that the bots have found him IRL and replaced him… Invasion of the Botty Snatchers…
I actually just had to bail on lemmy.ml and come over to lemmy.world.
Turns out the zScaler web filters they use at work have a blanket filter on the entire .ml TLD… Can’t be having that now…
ELI5 on the blanket filter please
I think they mean that work has a filter that blocks *.ml (anything that ends in .ml)
.ml tends to be one of the most abused top level domains for malware, spam, etc (in terms of ratio of malicious to non malicious domains) similar to .top, .buzz, .club, etc. So, many DNS filters on company networks simply filter all domains of these TLDs (and maybe whitelist a few known good ones) since they tend to be almost certainly malicious.
I filter them on my home network too via pihole (though not .ml)
“Non-bot Lemmy instance” Go talk to the beehaw’ers about that, they’re convinced we’re the bottiest of instances. =P
Not bottiest. They specifically said it was the trolliest.
Wow, what did they say in particular?
More accurately they defederated from lemmy.world due to “concerns” about it’s open sign-ups policy and the potential for “abuse”.
It was less about intangible “concerns” and more that most of their time spent moderating was from users of this instance and since they’re strained on time, it made sense to simply defederate until the necessary mod tools exist to make things easier.
It’s four volunteers dude, they’re allowed to do what they think is best for their instance. This is not their full time job
Nothing of value was lost
I’m new here, too! Just made the account. <3 Never liked Reddit, but open source stuff is always nice, plus, Lemmy looks way cleaner. So uhm… henlo!
The next 40K will be even quicker.
Congratulations 🍾🎉🎊 lemmy.world
Gotta love that uptime too!
Here representing kbin! I honestly keep trying to go back to a lemmy.world from time to time but I prefer kbin’s experience overall. Fantastic news for all involved!
The fact that you’re seamlessly commenting in a lemmy.world post from kbin.social is amazing.
It’s such an amazing system! Really impressing me and I plan to stay regardless of what Reddit does!
I don’t understand. You say 40k but on the statistics page of kbin https://kbin.social/stats it says 200k users (?)
I’m not sure what that 200k users number really means (a glitch perhaps?), but the raw live data directly from kbin.social node info currently shows it’s grown to 41k users: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0
kbin.social is a Kbin instance, not a Lemmy instance, so it’s not stopping lemmy.world from being the biggest Lemmy instance.
@MicroWave I don’t know about bots but I think Kbin has a little over 41K users right now: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0
Thanks for the update. So cool to see a kbin.social user commenting in a lemmy.world post.
Kbin user here. I didn’t put much thought into which server I joined. Kbin sign-up was easy so here I am. It’s cool that it doesn’t really matter which server you’re from!
Why is country shown as Finland? The server is host in Germany AFAIK.
According to the website, it’s based on the server’s IP location.
Hey that sweet Finnish flag was the reason I chose it! I feel cheated now :(
Great news! But how do lemmy.fediverse.observer and fedidb.org separate “bots” from “non-bots”? It feels like “we don’t have any bots” is a pretty laughable thing to say.
They currently do not separate, unfortunately.
