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1 year agoWe purged 32k unverified bot/spam accounts from our Lemmy instance this past week. We had email verification on but had missed adding CAPTCHA during initial setup. We’re still fairly new. Had over 1500 accounts “apply” within a 2 minute span. My admin email was flooded. It was ridiculous.
They’re gone now, but we’re staying vigilant.
we’re all still small fries, but that’s ok because the fediverse is large. We’re just small apartment buildings full of people in a larger city. We’re not alone and size isn’t as important as community and communication.