Hi there, Been running my own little Lemmy instance basically to see how it runs with federation and stuff like that. I have had open (email validation) for the odd person or 2 that might want to use it.

Early this morning (my time 4:43am) I had about 15 new users all at the exact same time registering as users with same structure names (random words) followed by 4 numbers. Being all within 1 minute of each other they are obvious bots.

Going through the UI I have not been able to find a way to remove them. I have since changed my registration policy to make the person fill in an application, captcha, email validation etc. to help stop polluting the ecosystem with bots.

Any help would be appreciated. I am running it all under docker

  • @Trapping5341
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    71 year ago

    I feel attacked. 😂

    In all seriousness. They probably are bots but I personally just let bitwarden make me a username and this is the default way to generate one.

    • talungOP
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      51 year ago

      lol, this made me chuckle… Are you an AI bot?

      • @Trapping5341
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        51 year ago

        No fellow human of course I am not an Artificial Intelligence. I have no idea what would make you think I was.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Bitwarden is great, takes out all the creativity and you end up with a username like mine.

      • @Trapping5341
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        21 year ago

        I guessing you just deleted to numbers and went with the first option like I did 😂