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.
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.
Oh I know. The suspicion list is just that suspicion for ratios which might be indicate botting. I probably need to tweak those numbers
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?
I just checked the communities, all of the posts added together doesn’t reach that number:
Ye so something funky is going on here. It could be that they’re deliberately reporting nonsense numbers in nodeinfo since iirc they have modified the lemmy code, but I’m not sure.
They posted a writeup here: https://awful.systems/comment/7129738
Thanks. Interesting that we’re no federating properly as some thing are still coming through. I wonder what broke.
