We were poking around the list of Lemmy servers, and we saw this crazy anomaly. 1.2 million comments in the course of a day or two … what’s going on over there?

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    1 year ago

    Sorry- just saw this. @[email protected]

    Was messing around helping out development for anti-spam/botting/etc… and realized, it was literally as easy as updating a single field in the database to completely fake the numbers.

    I had “1 million users” for a week or two, before I reset it back to the actual number, because it was setting off some of the bot alarms.

    But… yea, all of the “stats”, are essentially effortless to manipulate.