@MicroWave to Fediverse • edit-21 year agolemmy.podycust.co.uk went from 20 users to over 9000 in just two days, making it the fourth-largest lemmy instance. Bot farm?message-square9arrow-up135arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up135arrow-down1message-squarelemmy.podycust.co.uk went from 20 users to over 9000 in just two days, making it the fourth-largest lemmy instance. Bot farm?@MicroWave to Fediverse • edit-21 year agomessage-square9file-text
Sources: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list https://fedidb.org/network/instance/lemmy.podycust.co.uk
minus-squareNetto Hikarilinkfedilink4•1 year agoHad some bots doing atomated sign ups that were easily blockable by enabling medium difficulty captchas. I also made a fail2ban rule that’ll ban IPs that attempt multiple signups in a short timeframe.
Had some bots doing atomated sign ups that were easily blockable by enabling medium difficulty captchas. I also made a fail2ban rule that’ll ban IPs that attempt multiple signups in a short timeframe.