Erik Uden 🚩 on Nostr: is it just me or are bots getting more sophisticated on the fediverse #fediadmin? ...
is it just me or are bots getting more sophisticated on the fediverse #fediadmin?
I've been having a super hard time differentiating who is real and who is fake anymore from sign up texts alone. It started with these "markov chain" texts that almost sounded like something someone could say, now they seem to have taken all "NeuHier" (new here) hashtags posts and put them into a list to use as sign up reasons for bots, as they all have very real sentences that a human must've said, but then have incredibly sketchy E-Mails and IP addresses.
Has it always been this way, or are my server just now being targeted?
Published at
2026-06-23 07:37:09 UTCEvent JSON
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