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Bots are trying to join my instance now through the application requirement (lemmyverse.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have the application process enabled for people to join my instance, and I've gotten about 20 bots trying to join today when I had nobody trying to join for 5 days. I can tell because they are generic messages and I put a question in asking what 2+3 is and none of them have answered it at all, they just have a generic message.

Be careful out there, for all you small instance admins.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A small LLM will easily crack that anyway, so applications are useless. /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And you can train that LLM to sound like Redditors for as little as $20M/year!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think a reasonable approach would be to include little javascript mini games. "Score 50 or higher!" with no instructions provided.

edit: using a server side rendered canvas/logic, so no cheating. Damn, this is probably a million dollar idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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