Why is awful.systems on the suspicious instances list?
Why is awful.systems on the suspicious instances list?
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Interesting. This typically means their ratio of posts to users or activity to monthly users is out of whack. I'll have to check more deeply.
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They do have some popular communities (!techtakes@awful.systems, for example) despite having a smallish number of users, and the admin (David Gerard) posts his writing there
It is legit though.
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Oh I know. The suspicion list is just that suspicion for ratios which might be indicate botting. I probably need to tweak those numbers
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OK so awful.systems has 487 registered users and yet 351701 local posts, (meaning not posts federated in, but posts created in the instance itself) Something doesn't quite add up well here.
@self@awful.systems do you have any idea what might be causing this? Do you have some sort of bot that opens a lot of local posts or some sort of importing mechanism from elsewhere?
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I just checked the communities, all of the posts added together doesn't reach that number:
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