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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)

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There's a clear up tick on daily users growing and we've crossed the 50k line as of yesterday! LETSSS GOOO! (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I hate them.

I run a cryptography forum on reddit (now here too). On reddit it's /r/crypto. Before the random suggested usernames every spam operation had to make up their own random username scheme. They ended up being mostly distinguishable because they used patterns normal people didn't. Now? A ton of users with limited activity are now indistinguishable from bots. So the subreddit has to be in restricted mode so only approved users can post, and for anybody with ambiguous post history I have to send them a request for more detail to be able to keep spammers out while still allowing genuine newbies to join to ask questions. Otherwise the spam volume just ends up being way too intense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

This is smart. I would take that advice, but right now my subs are in maintence mode as a form of slactivism. I don't post I just check in to delete a spam bot every few days.