Plot twist: All of the “bot accounts” were actually a huge influx of Reddit users who were lurking. By removing the accounts / defederating with their instances, we’ve sent them all back to Reddit, ensuring Reddit can pull through the mass exodus.
Lmao yeah that pretty much looks like what they were using.
But the way I took care of it was just deleting users who hadn’t completed their email verification within one hour. The bots haven’t actually done email verification YET
Do you have tips/advice for hosting a lemmy instance on a LAN? I’m looking to get acquainted with administering an instance using the docker route on a Proxmox Ubuntu container without much success. I’m hoping to eventually host an instance for the West African community
Plot twist: All of the “bot accounts” were actually a huge influx of Reddit users who were lurking. By removing the accounts / defederating with their instances, we’ve sent them all back to Reddit, ensuring Reddit can pull through the mass exodus.
Nah lol, I’m an admin and could see all the email addresses they were using. Fake af
tbf disposable email services are a thing
But my email is a Fastmail masked email, it’s randomly generated l, so it might look fake as well ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Well that’s what I get for making my email address chuqid71bdu6@hotmail.com
Lmao yeah that pretty much looks like what they were using.
But the way I took care of it was just deleting users who hadn’t completed their email verification within one hour. The bots haven’t actually done email verification YET
Do you have tips/advice for hosting a lemmy instance on a LAN? I’m looking to get acquainted with administering an instance using the docker route on a Proxmox Ubuntu container without much success. I’m hoping to eventually host an instance for the West African community