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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years 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 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

tbf disposable email services are a thing

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

Well that's what I get for making my email address [email protected]

[-] bdonvr 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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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