• MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
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      Yeah, it’s absolutely disappointing and gross. Bots have been actively probing for obscure instances without registration validation and flocking to them. Good thing the top real lemmy instances (like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.ca) have been much more vigilant about that.

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            My (different person here) take is it’s probing behavior. Who benefits? Anti-reddit-protest trolls want to see this fail, and some could have the resources. Savvy criminal organizations see potential profit. Major tech companies see at least a research opportunity at minimal expense. White hats want to find and raise awareness of vulnerabilities.

            Only governments would really have no major motive beyond the usual surveillance of a social space. So I think the question should really be, who’s not doing it? Because if people aren’t wholesale fucking around yet, they’ll start very soon. It’s only the savvy or lucky that are aware of us still, but that will not be true for long. Snowball is rolling now, that’s pretty plain to see.

            I mean, we’re just a big and growing pile of consumers. What else do you do with those?

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      I don’t see how that could be done, the bot owners can always just spin up their own new instance where they control sign up requirements.

      Other instances can then defederate from the spam instance but they can quickly spin up a new one.

      Gonna be interesting to see how it’s solved.

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          The fediverse is decentralized, anyone can start their own lemmy/kbin/mastodon/whatever server and make an account they just approve themselves.

          If you mean some kind of global approval then that destroys the whole point of the fediverse.