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[Solved] Temporarily closed signups because of spam signups (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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So some spam signups just happened (all username12345678@gmail.com format e-mail) This caused bounced mail to increase, causing Mailgun to block our domain to prevent it getting blacklisted.

So:

  • Mail temporarily doesn't work
  • I closed signups for now
  • I will ban the spam accounts
  • I will check how to prevent (maybe approval required again?)

Stay tuned.

Edit: so apparently there is a captcha option which I now enabled. Let's see if this prevents spam. Registrations open again.

Edit2 : Hmm Mailgun isn't that fast in unblocking the domain. Closing signups again because validation mails aren't sent

Edit 3: I convinced Mailgun to lift the block. Signups open again.

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[โ€“] EvilMonkeySlayer@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

User on kbin here, just tried to sign up to lemmy.world.. looks like everything crashed and burned when tried to sign up there.

[โ€“] lemmy@endlesstalk.org 1 points 2 years ago

I ran into the issue on my instance as well, but checking the Captcha option in admin settings, stopped the signups for me.

[โ€“] rastilin@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] AtomicPurple@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Very clever, only problem is it's not a general solution.

[โ€“] CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] ruud@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[โ€“] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 years ago

I am from Lemmy Canada. I have noticed that when I come to a community hosted on Lemmy World I am often signed out. Do I need to sign up here to participate?