My modlog got spammed today by some script banning a lot of people for spam automatically. It's getting wild. This was inevitable with the growth of Lemmy as a platform though.

This applies to any website. by visiting the website you give them your IP. the only way to mitigate this is to use a VPN.

they might be. but they won't be able to log in to break stuff.

Pixel 6a. I really like the pixels but when they are rooted.

Very nice! I've only got one and I need a more sturdy table since it gets rattled apart by the printer.

Just keep an eye on the GitHub page if you want to stay updated at all times. Other than that just check up on your storage use from time to time. You can also set up a job to restart the server every once in a while but that's not really necessary.

Visual bug. you're subscribed.

this happened overnight for me. I turned on captcha and email verification. captcha is important. I was watching the logs and all activity stopped after captcha got enabled.

so i've heard. very unfortunate. I left a comment on the bring back captchas open issue on github.

That explains why it's struggling to federate

You have to delete them from local_users and person tables. Be careful with person table to not delete entries from users outside your Instance. It worked for me and fixed the user count in my sidebar.

No problem! Hopefully others that had this problem can fix their instance too. Since we don't know when the spam accounts will become active and start posting or if that spam attack was just to mess with us.

How long ago did you start the instance. It took my instance 3 days to stabilize before things started working properly.

How would it benefit an instance to be on the top of the leaderboard. Having more people on your instance means higher server costs. The optimal situation is to have a small group of people on each instance but just more instances.

There was a spam sign up attack recently.

what instance? I don't have this problem on Brave(Chromium)

I tried it but it didn't work for me. I'm the instance admin btw. This is on my own instance.

What worked for me is manually deleting those entries from the database through the console. Gotta delete it from the postgresql database if you don't have any real user sign ups during the spam sign ups, you can just delete all entries after a certain point. That's how I did it.

You're still subscribed. it's just visually broken.

Could you go to lemmyfi.com from your browser and tell me if it works for you?