Could you go to lemmyfi.com from your browser and tell me if it works for you?
I tried it but it didn't work for me. I'm the instance admin btw. This is on my own instance.
they might be. but they won't be able to log in to break stuff.
There was a spam sign up attack recently.
How would it benefit an instance to be on the top of the leaderboard. Having more people on your instance means higher server costs. The optimal situation is to have a small group of people on each instance but just more instances.
That explains why it's struggling to federate
No problem! Hopefully others that had this problem can fix their instance too. Since we don't know when the spam accounts will become active and start posting or if that spam attack was just to mess with us.
You have to delete them from local_users and person tables. Be careful with person table to not delete entries from users outside your Instance. It worked for me and fixed the user count in my sidebar.
What worked for me is manually deleting those entries from the database through the console. Gotta delete it from the postgresql database if you don't have any real user sign ups during the spam sign ups, you can just delete all entries after a certain point. That's how I did it.
so i've heard. very unfortunate. I left a comment on the bring back captchas open issue on github.
this happened overnight for me. I turned on captcha and email verification. captcha is important. I was watching the logs and all activity stopped after captcha got enabled.