Fake downloads on Crates.io?

53 points Olemalte2

Hi

are there a lot of bots on crates io who download stuff just for fun?

I once created a signed distance function crate... I didnt care about ux or anything it wasnt a product - just a simple hobby thingy after school for a few hours.

but why than does it have almost 2k downloads? Who downloads this?? If these are bot downloads, what bot wants to download this?

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for reference heres the link: https://crates.io/crates/signed\_distance\_fields