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lemmy.podycust.co.uk went from 20 users to over 9000 in just two days, making it the fourth-largest lemmy instance. Bot farm? (self.fediverse)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.