I'm quite concerned by the huge increase of seemingly bots on some Lemmy instances. Dvmsocial and beehaw defederated from some. What about bin? How to protect ourselves from the bot swarm that's coming?...
I really fear that they all awake at the same time and flood / attack our instances.. This seems to be a temporary solution but time consuming for you. Beehaw defederated too from a list of instances. Maybe this list could help you :
based on the list of instances made by @sunaurus here - Thank you again for that work, it’s highly appreciated.
This is a preventive measure against massive amounts of accounts being created for botting purposes. Most instances banned appear to be 1 user instances so we don’t think this will have a great effect on anyone’s usage of Beehaw. If you are an admin of one of those instances, feel free to contact us at support@beehaw.org
An emergency position-indicating radiobeacon (EPIRB) is a type of emergency locator beacon for commercial and recreational boats, a portable, battery-powered radio transmitter used in emergencies to locate boaters in distress and in need of immediate rescue.
I assume someone's deleting critical news articles there, or having bot armies downvote them. On Kbin and Lemmy and Squabbles, even on Google News, I see Reddit's woes front and center.
Coming from a third party reddit app, my front page did a good job populating itself with posts from less busy subreddits even though there were proportionally WAAAY more dead posts from /r/pics than from a smaller subreddit. Kbin seems to be showing waay more posts from RedditMigration and priacy right now because of how busy...
Subscribe to magazines that you want to follow. In setting, change your homepage to 'subscribed' (or whatever it is named). Then only scroll your subscribed communities.
Or
next to the subscribe button, there is another button to block a magazine.
Personally I do both. I went on the magazine page, I subscribed to many small communities even if I'm not really interested in. And I block the big ones that are flooding the 'all' homepage (=reddit =redditmigration ....)
I'm interested in the other niches that you found ! I started keeping ants with my son when he found a queen outside. Now we have three colonies. We also have a cockroaches (to feed the ants) and this spring we started a snail terrarium. It's always amazing to watch this small guy doing what they do.
This is what I did after the disastrous AMA.
Deleted my history with reddact.
Uninstalled Reddit.
Uninstalled Apollo (crying).
I won't go on this platform anymore.
Although I'm missing some 'niche' communities such as antkeeping or those about specific incremental games..
Now I'm trying to filter all the communities that are on this topic.
Even if it's on the fediverse, speaking about Reddit gives them more visibility.
I have, for lack of a better term, a duckweed infestation. I've been scooping out some of it every day, but it's tedious and seemingly ineffective, as it multiplies every night....
Why Are Radicals Like Just Stop Oil Booed Rather Then Supported? (www.transformatise.com)
Guide to ID your ants or queens
Identifying the queens you gather may be a hard task....
Brace yourself bots are coming.
I'm quite concerned by the huge increase of seemingly bots on some Lemmy instances. Dvmsocial and beehaw defederated from some. What about bin? How to protect ourselves from the bot swarm that's coming?...
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Interesting read of a former passenger aboard the missing sub, Titan. (www.npr.org)
The only place I don't see frontpage news about what's happening with Reddit is on Reddit.
I assume someone's deleting critical news articles there, or having bot armies downvote them. On Kbin and Lemmy and Squabbles, even on Google News, I see Reddit's woes front and center.
Watch Fire Ants Build A Bridge From Their Own Bodies To Cross Water (a-z-animals.com)
Watch fire ants build a bridge from their own bodies to cross water in this sensational video highlighting the intelligence of nature.
Yesterday's sea ice extent was 4.02σ below the 1991-2023 mean (1-in-34,000).
Anyone else noticing a strong bias towards highly active magazines on /sub?
Coming from a third party reddit app, my front page did a good job populating itself with posts from less busy subreddits even though there were proportionally WAAAY more dead posts from /r/pics than from a smaller subreddit. Kbin seems to be showing waay more posts from RedditMigration and priacy right now because of how busy...
How it feels starting my new Lemmy community with zero subscribers (lemmy.world)
New protest method (www.reddit.com)
Rule 1: All Posts Must Be About Vacuum Cleaners...
Wet f(22) (sopuli.xyz)
Stolen radioactive source, Houston, Texas (www-news.iaea.org)
Might be important to spread the word in Texas / Houston's vicinity
Everyone, play dead! Entire ant colony joins in on stunt to fool predators (studyfinds.org)
The species on Australia's Kangaroo Island appeared to play dead when threatened, a behavior that researchers believe is a world-first.
Atlantic hurricane season 2023: El Niño and extreme Atlantic Ocean heat are about to clash (theconversation.com)
Current forecasts suggest a warm tropical Pacific will be interfering with what could otherwise be a ferocious Atlantic hurricane season.
Tips on removing/eliminating duckweed?
I have, for lack of a better term, a duckweed infestation. I've been scooping out some of it every day, but it's tedious and seemingly ineffective, as it multiplies every night....
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