There's a post titled: [Solved] Temporarily closed signups because of spam signups. See the mod logs. I didn't check it extensively, but looks like a mess of user bans. https://lemmy.podycust.co.uk/post/9389
Had some bots doing atomated sign ups that were easily blockable by enabling medium difficulty captchas. I also made a fail2ban rule that'll ban IPs that attempt multiple signups in a short timeframe.
I had my instance open for signups without a captcha. It ballooned to 1k "users" in a 6 hour period before implementing the captcha. I think that's probably what happened here.
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ulu_mulu@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 3y
Only 7 posts for more than 6k users? Reeks of a bot farm.
MicroWave@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
ulu_mulu@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y
I would report it to the admins, if it's really a bot farm, they might want to block it.
MicroWave@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
TillThen96@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
There's a post titled: [Solved] Temporarily closed signups because of spam signups. See the mod logs. I didn't check it extensively, but looks like a mess of user bans. https://lemmy.podycust.co.uk/post/9389
MBM@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com noticed the same here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/87753
MicroWave@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
NettoHikari@social.fossware.space · 4 pts · 3y
Had some bots doing atomated sign ups that were easily blockable by enabling medium difficulty captchas. I also made a fail2ban rule that'll ban IPs that attempt multiple signups in a short timeframe.
ajnixzy@feddit.fun · 3 pts · 3y
I had my instance open for signups without a captcha. It ballooned to 1k "users" in a 6 hour period before implementing the captcha. I think that's probably what happened here.