and this one that built a tool to identify bots' instances:
Brace yourself bots are coming.
I'm quite concerned by the huge increase of seemingly bots on some Lemmy instances. Dvmsocial and beehaw defederated from some. What about bin? How to protect ourselves from the bot swarm that's coming?
Sources : https://kbin.social/m/random/t/78537/Blocking-instances-for-potentially-suspicious-activity https://kbin.social/m/support@beehaw.org/t/77620/Defederation-from-instances-suspected-of-becoming-bots-haven
Edit : A Lemmy guy created a script that can auto defederate from these unprotected instances. Maybe it is the short term solution : https://kbin.social/m/agora@sh.itjust.works/t/78131/Vote-Use-the-Fediverse-Overseer-to-pre-emptively-defederate-from-suspected
I really fear that they all awake at the same time and flood / attack our instances.. This seems to be a temporary solution but time consuming for you. Beehaw defederated too from a list of instances. Maybe this list could help you :
lemmy.k6qw.com,lemmy.podycust.co.uk,waveform.social,bbs.darkwitch.net,cubing.social,lemmy.roombob.cat,lemmy.jtmn.dev,lemmy.juggler.jp,bolha.social,sffa.community,dot.surf,granitestate.social,veenk.help,lemmyunchained.net,wumbo.buzz,lemmy.sbs,lemmy.shwizard.chat,clatter.eu,mtgzone.com,oceanbreeze.earth,mindshare.space,lemmy.tedomum.net,voltage.vn,lemmy.fyi,demotheque.com,thediscussion.site,latte.isnot.coffee,news.deghg.org,lemmy.primboard.de,baomi.tv,marginalcuriosity.net,lemmy.cloudsecurityofficehours.com,lemmy.game-files.net,lemmy.fedi.bub.org,lemmy.blue,lemmy.easfrq.live,narod.city,lemmy.ninja,lemmy.reckless.dev,nlemmy.nl,lemmy.mb-server.com,rammy.site,fedit.io,diggit.xyz,slatepacks.com,theotter.social,lemmy.nexus,kleptonix.com,rabbitea.rs,zapad.nstr.no,feddi.no
based on the list of instances made by @sunaurus here - Thank you again for that work, it’s highly appreciated.
This is a preventive measure against massive amounts of accounts being created for botting purposes. Most instances banned appear to be 1 user instances so we don’t think this will have a great effect on anyone’s usage of Beehaw. If you are an admin of one of those instances, feel free to contact us at support@beehaw.org
here the original post :
https://beehaw.org/post/701910
I'm stunned by the huge number of people still using the app but... ironically upvoting subs going dark