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Dealing with Bot Accounts in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] talung@lemmy.talung.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks, I have gone through and identified the REAL accounts gathered the ID's and deleted the rest from local_user and person tables.

Haven't really played much with Postgress so took some time to look up all the functionality with that.

EDIT: yup, made sure the person one was local only :)

Dealing with Bot Accounts in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] talung@lemmy.talung.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol, this made me chuckle... Are you an AI bot?

Dealing with Bot Accounts in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] talung@lemmy.talung.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And How would I do that in the UI? This is the issue, haven't found a way to even find those users on my system, even though it marks at 15 extra users.

Dealing with Bot Accounts in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] talung@lemmy.talung.org 4 points 1 year ago

thanks I will try this.

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Dealing with Bot Accounts (lemmy.talung.org)
 

Hi there, Been running my own little Lemmy instance basically to see how it runs with federation and stuff like that. I have had open (email validation) for the odd person or 2 that might want to use it.

Early this morning (my time 4:43am) I had about 15 new users all at the exact same time registering as users with same structure names (random words) followed by 4 numbers. Being all within 1 minute of each other they are obvious bots.

Going through the UI I have not been able to find a way to remove them. I have since changed my registration policy to make the person fill in an application, captcha, email validation etc. to help stop polluting the ecosystem with bots.

Any help would be appreciated. I am running it all under docker

Evernote Lays Off Most of Staff, Triggering Fears of Closure in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] talung@lemmy.talung.org 2 points 1 year ago

Been using Joplin for ages now. used to use Evernote and was trying to find something to replace it. Joplin fitted that need, and being able to store all the stuff on my dropbox in encrypted format made it great for use on all my devices. Combination of Joplin and Bitwarden is pretty much my secure solution to everything. lol