• KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    Plot twist: All of the “bot accounts” were actually a huge influx of Reddit users who were lurking. By removing the accounts / defederating with their instances, we’ve sent them all back to Reddit, ensuring Reddit can pull through the mass exodus.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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      1 year ago

      Nah lol, I’m an admin and could see all the email addresses they were using. Fake af

      • quickpen@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        But my email is a Fastmail masked email, it’s randomly generated l, so it might look fake as well ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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        1 year ago

        Do you have tips/advice for hosting a lemmy instance on a LAN? I’m looking to get acquainted with administering an instance using the docker route on a Proxmox Ubuntu container without much success. I’m hoping to eventually host an instance for the West African community

        • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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          Lmao yeah that pretty much looks like what they were using.

          But the way I took care of it was just deleting users who hadn’t completed their email verification within one hour. The bots haven’t actually done email verification YET