Thank you for investigating

This highlights one of the things that I saw as a benefit when I started on kbin: being able to see who the downvote fairies were. I know the discussion has been done to death on the Lemmy side, but as a user I found it interesting to be able to see this kind of info. For example, instead of just block/reporting the spammer, I could block their sock puppets that upvoted as well. (And did kbin.social have a lot of that towards the end. Oof.)

Thanks for digging into this.

The attacker is the admin of these two instances. Both instances have their registrations closed.

Not sure if this community was the best place to post this, but yeah, that seems like a bad thing. Thanks for pointing it out. I do find it funny how most of the bot names follow the AdjectiveNounNumber format.

Lemmings of all instances, you may want to let your local admins know of this potential issue.

Here's a link to the megathread of support/meta communities for each instance: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40519876

You should be able to find your instance's support/meta community in the list and cross-post OP's post to it.

The list of accounts is helpful. I’m going to copy+paste an idea that I had suggested elsewhere previously that someone with the means to achieve could set up to help fight these bot/astro-turf accounts:

If feasible, I think the best option would be an instance that functions similarly to how Reddit’s now defunct r/BotDefense operated and instances which want to filter out bots would federate with that. Essentially, if there is an account that is suspect of being a bot, users could submit that account to this bot defense server and an automated system would flag obvious bots whereas less obvious bots would have to be inspected manually by informed admins/mods of the server. This flagging would signal to the federated servers to ban these suspect/confirmed bot accounts. This instance would also be able to flag when a particular server is being overrun by bots and advise other servers to temporarily defederate.

There are some other ideas in that comment too, but this one is the most relevant.

Great work. It doesn’t matter who the target is this time (pretty sure I blocked them every time they popped up with a new account). This kind of shit should not be tolerated at all.

lemmy . doesnotexist . club is where all those Nicole pictures are linked from for some reason.

what does defederated mean?

like trusted instance admins to block untrusted ones (like the ones in the post) from showing all content/interactions on the trusted instance so users dont interact with them - like server block?

@jerry@fedia.io

Current federation status:

• https://defed.xyz/check?name=chinese.lol&software=lemmy
• https://defed.xyz/check?name=lemmy.doesnotexist.club&software=lemmy

Men. Tough. I agree it shouldn't be allowed, but I can't find a shred of sympathy for Nazis.

Hi, I'm the admin for chinese.lol, and I just realized that my instance was compromised by those bots, as there is no verification required during registration. Let me check the database and work on banning those suspicious accounts. Also, could you suggest any methods to prevent these bot attacks and stop them from registering in the future?