Several instances are defederating from sffa.community because there is some suspicion of heavy bot infestation here. https://lemm.ee/post/177673?scrollToComments=true

This means a lot of the fediverse is not going to show up for users here (I had to make a separate account here just to post this because my instance has blocked you.)

Not sure what the solution is, but I ask the admins here to maybe contact the lemmy.ee admins who first noticed the bot problem so we can see you guys again! I miss seeing my SFFA content and don’t want you guys to dwindle not realizing you are being quarantined.

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          There shouldn’t be one, but kbin is also kinda weird. We are federated with them, so we should get their posts, but they don’t always seem to update.

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    We purged all the bots and set up CAPTCHA and I can say that we do not have a bot infestation right now. None of them made it past the signup. There’s been no posting activity.

    The only bot posting is one Nighed has been testing as a mod tool while it’s being built.

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    I’ve tried leaving comments on that post both from this account and my kbin.social account but they aren’t showing up. I can’t find another way to contact that OP. :( You are welcome to have them reach out to me at [email protected]

    You can see here we are down to only organic users.

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    I can’t seem to post over on that link. I don’t know how to open that link here in our home instance. But we did notice the bot sign up and took care of it. They never got past e-mail verification and now that we’ve had CAPTCHA in, no wave of bots any longer. Our database has been purged.