[Solved] Temporarily closed signups because of spam signups (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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So some spam signups just happened (all username12345678@gmail.com format e-mail) This caused bounced mail to increase, causing Mailgun to block our domain to prevent it getting blacklisted.

So:

Mail temporarily doesn't work
I closed signups for now
I will ban the spam accounts
I will check how to prevent (maybe approval required again?)

Stay tuned.

Edit: so apparently there is a captcha option which I now enabled. Let's see if this prevents spam. Registrations open again.

Edit2 : Hmm Mailgun isn't that fast in unblocking the domain. Closing signups again because validation mails aren't sent

Edit 3: I convinced Mailgun to lift the block. Signups open again.

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[-] admin@thegarden.land 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the tip- I’m having the same issue. How do I ban those accounts? I can’t even tell who my users are

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I did it in the database, so if you can access your database I can assist.

[-] aranym@lemmy.name 2 points 1 year ago

My instance also experienced this. I'm the only active user (I made it a day ago), but the user count is up to 2K now. It stopped after I enabled captchas, but I want to remove these spam accounts so they don't cause issues elsewhere.

I don't even have a slight clue as to what I should look for in my database.

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Contact me via Matrix if possible @ruud:h-y-p-e-r.space

[-] darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party 1 points 1 year ago

If you haven't figured it out yet or got a response yet, hop onto the instance admin group on matrix for Lemmy (details are on the GitHub or join Lemmy page somewhere I believe) and one of the many other folks running instances can probably walk you through it