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They killed captcha support in 0.18, which basically negates one of the methods to stop the bots... so if we upgrade, we will likely need to email verification until 0.18.1 is released OR stay on 0.17.4 until 0.18.1 is released where they've promised to bring it back.

Bots cleaned, there is now a captcha and I have some additional admin tools. I'm not going into too much detail as the bot maker may be reading :)

I will be keeping a close eye on the numbers and patterns over the next few days, so it may close again for a few hours depending on the types of attacks. If anyone sees a latte.isnot.coffee user spamming anywhere on Lemmy please let me know immediately

Admin approval will be granted every few hours, not ideal but I need to get a handle on the 28k+ bots that have signed up.

Same post on lemm.ee - https://lemm.ee/post/197715

This instance has open sign ups - and is one of the instances which the lemm.ee admins noticed bot posts from.

Should we do anything to stem the bots? Would very much like the lemmyverse to be many small instances federated together, rather then just a few mega ones.

Seems we have a memory leak in Lemmy, I will report it upstream and see what they say since we have 4GB RAM now and it was fine with 2GB for days and now goes down with 4 over 24 hours :|

All I will say is bloody node.js

./syslog:Jun 18 04:38:38 ip-172-31-33-220 kernel: [142633.319174] Out of memory: Killed process 1349 (node) total-vm:2700484kB, anon-rss:2004100kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:18016kB oom_score_adj:0

Reported upstream, in the meantime I may need to do a quick reboot every 24 hours where the server may be down for 1-2 minutes: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3183

Server went crazy in CPU and killed itself, looking into it now.

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I started off with an account at lemmy.ml named the same as this account but that instance became overloaded so I am here now :D

Old account: https://lemmy.ml/u/original_ish_name
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