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Bots are trying to join my instance now through the application requirement

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I have the application process enabled for people to join my instance, and I’ve gotten about 20 bots trying to join today when I had nobody trying to join for 5 days. I can tell because they are generic messages and I put a question in asking what 2+3 is and none of them have answered it at all, they just have a generic message.

Be careful out there, for all you small instance admins.

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AChiTenshi@vlemmy.net
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My guess would be because it is more difficult for other instances to deal with instances that have a combination of bots and actual users.

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Kichae@kbin.social
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This.

You just domain or IP block a bot server. Maybe you don’t want to block a place with a history, and people.

And smaller sites are using the application form. SJW and Lemmy.world are much more ripe for setting up on, because it’s a much bigger decision to block them.

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