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Bots are trying to join my instance now through the application requirement (lemmyverse.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have the application process enabled for people to join my instance, and I've gotten about 20 bots trying to join today when I had nobody trying to join for 5 days. I can tell because they are generic messages and I put a question in asking what 2+3 is and none of them have answered it at all, they just have a generic message.

Be careful out there, for all you small instance admins.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One recommendation-

I did just publish a few SQL queries to ASSIST in tracking down bots. They are located at THIS POST.

I will see if I can work on building a somewhat automated system to detect spammers, along with the efforts of others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you very much for this.