Hive Meetup Vienna, Halloween edition, Hive Merch, 17K spam bot network on hive discovered, wow (Photo gallery)

Gestern trafen wir uns zu Halloween in einer neuen Location, MIKES bei der der U6 Burggasse (Urban-Loritz-Platz) in Wien. Das Lokal war gemütlich und ansprechend, nicht so voll/laut wie befürchtet.

Habe die Gelegenheit genutzt und bin als Guy Fawkes zum Meetup gegangen, war witzig, vergesst den 5. November nicht, Wahlen in den USA 😂

Es war uns auch eine Freude zwei neue Gesichter beim Stammtisch begrüßen zu dürfen, @danaandwild und @godfish Hive OG, der extra aus Prag angereist ist.

Haben auch über Hive geplaudert, Snaps, Creators Meetup in Graz (Anfang Mai 2025), 3speak gerade down, und auch das schwierige Thema Downvotes.

Für die Einen sind Downvotes wichtig, für die Balance und um Plagiate und unfaires Verhalten zu bekämpfen, für die Anderen richten sie mehr Schaden als Nutzen an.

Vor Kurzem wurde auch ein Bot-Netzwerk mit 17 Tausend Spam-Accounts aufgedeckt, das unter anderem älteren Content von anderen Usern gestohlen und repostet haben soll. Krass.

https://peakd.com/hive/@louis88/dont-f-with-the-community-my-research-on-the-spam-wave-over-the-past-few-days

Was sagt ihr dazu?

Hive Meetup Vienna

@vikisecrets (as Guy Fawkes), @thermoplastic, @schmidi, @danaandwild, @godfish, @reiseamateur, @stayoutoftherz (photographer)

Hive Merch

English

Yesterday we met at Halloween in a new location, MIKES near the U6 Burggasse (Urban-Loritz-Platz) in Vienna.

The place was cozy and appealing, not as crowded/loud as feared.

I took the opportunity and went to the meetup as Guy Fawkes, it was funny, don't forget November 5th, election day in the US 😂

It was also a pleasure to welcome two new faces to the meetup, @danaandwild and @godfish Hive OG, who traveled all the way from Prague to Vienna.

We also chatted about Hive, Snaps, Creators Meetup in Graz (beginning of May 2025), 3speak currently down, and also the difficult topic of downvotes.

For some, downvotes are important for balance and to combat plagiarism and unfair behavior, for others they do more harm than good.

Recently, a bot network with 17 thousand spam accounts was uncovered in hive, which is said to have stolen and reposted older content from other users. Insane.

https://peakd.com/hive/@louis88/dont-f-with-the-community-my-research-on-the-spam-wave-over-the-past-few-days

What do you think? Have you already visited a hive meetup?

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Thanks for the event and the afterparty ;)

All the way from Prague ain't that much, though ;)

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was a pleasure to meet you, haha, yeah was part of Austria once, but still, how long did it take to come to Vienna?

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Four hours by train, plus some 20 minutes of delay :)

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I’m glad you had fun and met so many people
Enjoy!

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Nice meetup and great guerilla marketing on the streets! 😃

Great to see you guys having fun! Greetings to Vienna Hivians and your guests from "the outside"! 😃

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Pff, I am not from the outside anymore :P

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Hehehehe... They accepted you as one of them!! 😍 🙂

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Happy Hive meetup
The pictures are beautiful and shows that you had fun

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great meet up! I hope everyone had fun.

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Never been on a meet up... The bot network was really bad, too bad you can't nuke it really, new accounts will come up

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Schön,dass ihr euch regelmäßig trefft! :)

Das mit dem Spam-Netzwerk ist echt krass!

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Das Flex gibt es immer noch?
Da war ich vor vielen Jahren mal mit ein paar Freunden als wir in Wien an der Poker Team Europameisterschaft teilgenommen haben, das wär eine schräge Location.
Und der Weg dorthin war gepflastert mit "netten Menschen" die uns alle gute Laune Pillen verkaufen wollten. 😂
!BEER

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Yep, Flex gibt's immer noch, waren nachher noch im Chelsea bei der U6.

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You have a meetup with Hive's popular people. It's good. Some downvotes are harmful and some downvotes are good, of course.

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Coole Runde! Hab schon gelesen, dass das nächste Meetup zu deinem Gebtag ist 😉
Echt krass mit den 17,4K Spam-Accounts. Soeben den Artikel von Louis gelesen. Heftig.

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No I haven't but will, hopefully, one day.
17k spam accounts is wicked, really.

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I hope you have fun and at the same time come up with something useful for Hive.

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Thank you for your witness vote!
Have a !BEER on me!
To Opt-Out of my witness beer program just comment STOP below

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It looks like a nice meetup.

It's scary to see so many spam accounts and how they were stealing content.

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It's really wonderful meeting up with great Hiveans, like minds to discuss a great community.

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Great report Viki. Wish you a great birthday party! If @danaandwild wants also a badge I just need 0.5 HBD. Unfortunately I don't have some liquid HBD left. Just unstaked some HBD. Takes time...

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Really so nice! I wish to be able to attend a meeting as this someday.

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