this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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Lemmy Administration

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Anything about running your own Lemmy instance. Including how to install it, maintain and customise it.

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It is currently possible, through Lemmy's API, to create accounts automatically and without limit if verification by email address or captcha is not activated. I'd advise you to activate one or both of them NOW!

After registering x number of accounts (currently I could do thousands), all you have to do is list all the existing communities for each of the account to publishes one new post per community, or more. I'll leave you to picture the mess.

(I apologise to the administrators of sh.itjust.works, I should have done the test with my own server.)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm surprised captchas weren't enabled in the first place... @[email protected]

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

Captchas are enabled