Massive spam account wave? (geddit.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Stux from geddit.social think that the massive recent wave of ~100k new Lemmy accounts is likely mostly spammers. Captchas suck, but are they better than the alternative?

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

they're also looking into alternate ways to prevent spam bots: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3204

this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023

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