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.
Damn bots, hope the Lemmy community can figure out a good way to deal with that.
People are setting up instances to serve as bot farms. I think they should add instances to Lemmy through some kind of vetting process, or maybe publish an official blacklist.
A lot of sign-ups are coming from bots on established instances, but the application method of screening is somewhat off-putting. I hope the community can devise a better one to replace it with at some point. I mean it’s no skin off my nose since I have three good login instances now, but better to make sign-ups as attractive as possible for actual human beings.