How about adding a captcha? I was surprised there was none when I signed up.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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Yes the devs should do that. We're currently discussing the the Lemmy matrix chat.
Captchas are laughably easy to get around but they do work against dumb script kiddies which seems this attack is originating from.
I'm down as long as its privacy friendly and doesn't use non-free javascript
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I love how transparent you are with the management of this instance. Kudos!
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Sounds frustrating. Thanks for doing what you do and letting us join your server! Hope the captcha works out.
Last time a website I was managing was bombarded with spam signups, I set up a regular expression to check for the incredibly distinctive format the spammers were using... then it reports success but doesn't actually create the account or send an email. Spam problem over.
Very clever, only problem is it's not a general solution.
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Those usernames are so unimaginative. Who would pick a name like that?
I know, right? That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on their luggage!
12345 is the code to my luggage
Now, can you tell me where your luggage is?
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I solved this problem once. What you do is have a custom captcha that you code yourself. It can be as simple as "What is 2+3?" and have 10-20 questions that you rotate between. Most spammers will be too lazy to update their spambot.
Don't just include it as text though. Rather, present the question as text in a picture.
This is very effective but also blocks people who spend on screen readers
The solution there is to provide a voice over of the captcha.
I made one that phrased it as "The sum of 2 and 3". Weeds out bots and less sophisticated people.
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Uff, that's annoying. Thank you for the warning. I have re-instated a signup application for my instance to prevent this.
Thanks for the tip- Iβm having the same issue. How do I ban those accounts? I canβt even tell who my users are
I did it in the database, so if you can access your database I can assist.
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Wow that was quick, amazing job as always!
I was trying to open my account just when lemmy.world was closed earlier. When I pressed the button to create it I only got and enless "charging" animation. But when it reopened, I just started the process again, and was as easy as a breeze and extremely fast. Glad to be here! (and this is my first post)
Becareful with this. There's a clear trend of massive amount of bot accounts flooding lemmy as a whole
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Thanks for staying on top of things! Really appreciate your efforts!
The spam battles are heating up!
Lucky me, I guess, since I use a masked email address that looks fake too (anon addy). I really dislike to give my email address when testing Reddit alternatives.
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Same on Geddit.social
Also fixed now!
Is there a growth target for the community? I see that Lemmy.world is almost equal in size to lemmy.ml. Will this instance remain open indefinitely?
No target. I will keep this open as long as it's possible. It's up to others to start as many Lemmy instances as possible, and the Lemmy devs to create a better join-lemmy with a rotating 'recommended server' preferring smaller instances. But that's difficult. Because you also don't want 1000 users to land on someone's Raspberry Pi instance without backup which they can just stop if they get bored of it. Same issue goes for Mastodon as well... but that's being worked on.
I have no technical knowledge or assistance to offer but thanks for what you do
Tangential question but itβs been on my mind. Should mods be encouraging images to be posted on outside image hosting services (Imgur or something) to reduce the load on Lemmy.world? I actually donβt know how much images affect the server.
Nah.. It's only 27GB of images right now. I have around 800GB space, and can have disks (cheap HDDs in case of images) added to the server. Also pictrs will support S3 in the newer version. But good that you're all thinking with me!
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User on kbin here, just tried to sign up to lemmy.world.. looks like everything crashed and burned when tried to sign up there.
It was you all along!
OK that makes sense, I was trying to sign up and couldn't figure out why everything was timing out. Sorry if my attempts looked like spam.
edit: it still doesn't work for me btw
Make sure you use a strong password for accounts
I am, it's my social security number, 365-24-7420!
Just kidding, that's not really the number! I wrote it backwards!
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I've run into this issue with some of my servers in the past and it's a real PITA to deal with because not only do you have to mitigate the issue, but then you have to make requests to get de-blacklisted, etc. I finally got sick of it all and installed a Barracuda spam firewall in front of the mail server. I have MUCH easier control over IMAP/SMTP now.
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