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See the tool here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/95652

And some discussion of the issue here: https://lemm.ee/post/177673

This tool produces a list of instances which have a very high number of users compared to the number of comments and posts. These instances are assumed to have high number of bot accounts on them.

Some other instances have started blocking them, should sh.itjust.works follow suit?

Of course, this need not be permanent, and will be reversed when those instances resolve the issue.

For reference, this is a list of instances suspected of being botted by the tool's default settings: https://overseer.dbzer0.com/api/v1/instances?activity_suspicion=20&domains=true

Ayes and nays please!

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

Aye

This is definitely gonna turn into a mess for servers that don't take care of this pre-emptively

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Nay! We should alert them of their mistake and help them fix it. We should only defederate from instances that are only host bots.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Aye.

It's pretty obvious which ones are botted instances. 30,000 users and 20 total posts on the instance? That's a bot.

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

Not necessarily, my account is on SDF because of their solid uptime, lack of defederated instances, relatively low user count compared to the more bloated instances, and a general appreciation for SDF's ethos. I generally don't post in many local communities.

However there will be some where it's obvious for sure. I just worry about people on lesser know instances that might not allow free creation of communities, but have policies they agree with.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Aye But with human review

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

Aye but we need to figure out how the process of unblocking them will work.