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[Solved] Temporarily closed signups because of spam signups (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ruud to c/lemmyworld

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So some spam signups just happened (all [email protected] format e-mail) This caused bounced mail to increase, causing Mailgun to block our domain to prevent it getting blacklisted.

So:

Mail temporarily doesn't work
I closed signups for now
I will ban the spam accounts
I will check how to prevent (maybe approval required again?)

Stay tuned.

Edit: so apparently there is a captcha option which I now enabled. Let's see if this prevents spam. Registrations open again.

Edit2 : Hmm Mailgun isn't that fast in unblocking the domain. Closing signups again because validation mails aren't sent

Edit 3: I convinced Mailgun to lift the block. Signups open again.

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

Damn bots, hope the Lemmy community can figure out a good way to deal with that.

People are setting up instances to serve as bot farms. I think they should add instances to Lemmy through some kind of vetting process, or maybe publish an official blacklist.

A lot of sign-ups are coming from bots on established instances, but the application method of screening is somewhat off-putting. I hope the community can devise a better one to replace it with at some point. I mean it's no skin off my nose since I have three good login instances now, but better to make sign-ups as attractive as possible for actual human beings.