Apollo refugee here learning about this new federated world. Is this specific to some servers? I signed up to lemmy.world and lemme.ee to have a bit of an explore and both required a captcha.
After being here a few weeks, your “home” server doesn’t matter too terribly much, as long as it stays federated with other servers. You can subscribe to communities (subreddits) in other servers and they’ll appear on your feed. It’s kinda cool. You do have to do a little more work building your communities you want to see and participating, as there no algorithm to tell you what to see. It’s with it though! Sort by Hot or Top Day and you’re good to go!
If memory holds, server admins can require any of (or none of) capchas, email verification, or manual approval for making a new account. They can also fully disable the ability to make accounts.
They do for some reason, we have had a serious problem of thousands of bots registering on instances with no protection, admins have been working hard to put the situation back into control.
Lo hacen por alguna razón, hemos tenido un problema grave con miles de bots que se registran en instancias sin protección, los administradores han estado trabajando arduamente para volver a controlar la situación.
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Apollo refugee here learning about this new federated world. Is this specific to some servers? I signed up to lemmy.world and lemme.ee to have a bit of an explore and both required a captcha.
There’s almost 2 million zombie accounts on random unknown instances that have captchas disabled.
All the main instances should be almost all legitimate users.
After being here a few weeks, your “home” server doesn’t matter too terribly much, as long as it stays federated with other servers. You can subscribe to communities (subreddits) in other servers and they’ll appear on your feed. It’s kinda cool. You do have to do a little more work building your communities you want to see and participating, as there no algorithm to tell you what to see. It’s with it though! Sort by Hot or Top Day and you’re good to go!
If memory holds, server admins can require any of (or none of) capchas, email verification, or manual approval for making a new account. They can also fully disable the ability to make accounts.
This graph is from the Mastodon user count bot, which I’m pretty sure only counts Mastodon instances: https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/110647916455518837.
I’m not sure why OP said it’s for every fediverse service.
You can check this website for looking at the “active user”, I think only users that comment are counted. https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
no creo que se molesten en registrarse con bots en un sitio que ni mercado ni beneficio hay…
I don’t think they bother registering with bots on a site that there is neither market nor profit…
We’ve got an election coming up in 16 months in the US. So I imagine we’ll see a lot of bots registering soon.
Tenemos una elección en 16 meses en los Estados Unidos. Así que me imagino que veremos muchos bots registrándose pronto.
I’m worried that Reddit and other social media giants would start DDoSing fedverse servers to kill off competition…
They do for some reason, we have had a serious problem of thousands of bots registering on instances with no protection, admins have been working hard to put the situation back into control.
Lo hacen por alguna razón, hemos tenido un problema grave con miles de bots que se registran en instancias sin protección, los administradores han estado trabajando arduamente para volver a controlar la situación.