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E-Mail verification on, captcha on, hunker down (lemmyfi.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just deleted over 800 users from my database that joined in the last few hours from obviously fake emails and botted usernames. Make sure to either close registration or have some sort of safety check in place because things are getting hairy out here.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Luckily caught it relatively early and only had to remove 120 fake users. The registrations stopped immediately after I turned on "require registration application".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this happened overnight for me. I turned on captcha and email verification. captcha is important. I was watching the logs and all activity stopped after captcha got enabled.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bad news: the capture functionality is going to be removed. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2922

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

so i've heard. very unfortunate. I left a comment on the bring back captchas open issue on github.