Trying to purge them and set up with Lemmy Ansible, I’ve disabled signups without admin approval for now.

I see a postgres container and a password but I’m not very familiar with postgres, I tried psql but can’t get access

Edit: Also anyone who’s de-federated with us, please reconsider. We’re a small server with active admin and will get a handle on this, I promise! We had an easy process to sign up for a few days while I got my users over and forgot to turn it off

Edit2: Looking much more healthy now, I will put the commands I’ve used in a comment below

  • PriorProjectEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Edit: Also anyone who’s de-federated with us, please reconsider. We’re a small server and will get a handle on this, I promise!

    In terms of getting refederated, consider:

    1. Making a post in your meta community once you have the bot accounts cleared up. Have the post describe your cleanup process, and measures you’ve put in place to prevent future bot storms, and what measures you have in place to detect abuse before it gets so far out of hand next time.
    2. Make an alt account on a broadly federated server, and verify it from your main latte account’s profile or in the meta-post.
    3. Use this account to contact admins on instances that have defederated from you, show them the post explaining how you’ve cleaned up and improved your processes and the verification that this alt is really owned by you as an admin on another instance and that you’re using it rather than your main to communicate around federation blocks.

    I would not expect most admins to review their blocklists unless you give them a reason to by showing them it’s less spooky to federate with you today than it was last week. Good luck, and sorry you’re having to deal with this.