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Just deleted over 800 users from my database that joined in the last few hours from obviously fake emails and botted usernames. Make sure to either close registration or have some sort of safety check in place because things are getting hairy out here.

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[–] thatcasualgamingguy@lemmy.nerdcore.social 1 points 1 year ago

Luckily caught it relatively early and only had to remove 120 fake users. The registrations stopped immediately after I turned on "require registration application".