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
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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 botsdeleted by creator
They’ve already replaced him.
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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…
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)
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!
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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 (?)
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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!
“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.
