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• fr0g@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s also been huge waves of spam account attacks on Mastodon recently.

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  • halm@leminal.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hope that’s not the entire answer but it has to add some numbers to the jump.

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  • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep, today I have seen a dozen or more instances of some account from some obscure server making their only post with just a picture of a spam can.

    Those are only the ones that go through, I am sure there is probably a lot more than the ones I saw.

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    • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And if you go to the website that the picture is from, the page is a string of text that isn’t in a spoken language or a common programming language. So the image is to make you think that it just a silly picture, when it is actually probably something pretty nefarious.

      Yesterday, they seemed to always tag a warframe community.

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    • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      hehe, spam can

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  • DosDude@retrolemmy.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s bleeding over to lemmy too when you browse by new.

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  • eatham@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yup its on lemmy aswell.

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• InfiniteFlow@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  While I’m not entirely sure wat it actually means, the message you get on that site right now might be the reason (some kind of experiment gone wrong artificially inflating the numbers):

  I was creating an implementation for the activity pub instance service transfer, but it seems to have spread far. We are very sorry to those who have experienced inconvenience.

  All temporarily used data has been removed and all data has been removed. The figures in the data will soon converge to zero.

  I trawled unintentionally.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nice.

    I thought it was someone making a bunch of bot accounts for the future…

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  • Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can someone do a ELI5 on this?

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    • Devorlon@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Someone was testing a program they made that links Lemmy / Mastadon (ActivityPub) to other services, think threads or Reddit.

      When they ran the program it created all the dummy accounts and published it to the Fediverse making it look like a lot of new users joined.

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• rglullis@communick.news ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  fediverse.hanbitgaram.com

  410 Gone!
  I was creating an implementation for the activity pub instance service transfer, but it seems to have spread far.
  We are very sorry to those who have experienced inconvenience.
  
  All temporarily used data has been removed and all data has been removed.
  The figures in the data will soon converge to zero.
  
  
  I trawled unintentionally.
  

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  • freamon@endlesstalk.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ooof. That makes me feel better about that time I accidentally brought ‘Test Post 1’ into production by commenting on it.

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    • pythonoob@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One time I accidentally removed access to a share drive for everyone in my entire company. It took a day to get it fixed. That was probably the worst day of my life lol

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• prunerye@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m shocked Lemmy has so many users. Feels like only a few thousand.

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  • lightnegative@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There might be lots of lurkers, like myself

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    • noyou@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Me too thanks

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    • GustavoFring@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why must you turn this instance into a house of lies!?!

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• wiki_me@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This shows nothing, probably some kind of glitch.

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• GuyWithLag@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • It may be counting Threads / Bsky participants
  • More likely fediverse broke through to the awareness of bit fleet maintainers…

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  • GuyWithLag@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, it’s one smartass that spun up his own system and that reports 39m users.

    A different kind of spam, looks like.

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    • rglullis@communick.news ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Could you please write the same comment, but without the namecalling for what seems to be an honest mistake?

      Good Lord, for all the talk about the Fediverse being a nicer place than corporate-controlled social media, comments like yours really show how that is very far from the rule.

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  • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    AFAIK, no bridges to Bluesky are actually active yet, and Bridgy Fed is considering ways of going opt-in.

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• Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Forget the user count. It’s probably mostly spammers. MAU is the important one.

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• melroy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  @uhrbaan spam..?

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