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Lemmy's total users surged from 156k to 240k in a single day today! What caused the jump? (self.fediverse)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This has to have something to do with the newly discovered API exploit to rapidly create accounts without any limits, right? Instances without captcha or email verification are vulnerable still, AFAIK.

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

One would think. I can't really find an upside to that, but it is quite exciting and interesting to be able to see all this take shape. Expected and unexpected things both. Happy I deleted RiF.