I turned on registration applications today since we had someone out there making tons of bot accounts on this instance.

Also since I don’t have a ton of control over what these accounts are doing I’m just going to be banning and then deleting them between Jun 18 at 6pm EST to Jun 19 at 9pm EST.

New accounts that go through the registration should be good to go. Anyone who had an account before then should be good too. Let me know if you got caught up in it or are having issues. If you need to, make a new account.

Thanks everyone, I feel confident this is the best way to handle it so we don’t have an artificially inflated number of ‘users’

  • Namiiria@wizanons.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Haa sad that there’s more bots than real people signing up 😅 Looking forward to when there’s gonna be more disscussions going! (was mostly a lurker on reddit but I enjoy the read!)

    • karce@wizanons.devOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Oh I’m not worried at all. We’ll grow slowly but I’m just excited to experience it along the way too. I should have required applications before this happened but I wanted to make it easy for new folks to get in.

      A good thing about this instance is that we’re federated with everyone and so we can freely access anybody’s instance. Large instances like beehaw have deferated now with other people so their users are unable to view or interact with content on those instances.

      I’ll try to keep us open with everyone, which was one of my concerns with the bots. They could misbehave on other instances and make us look bad.

      Anyway, small instances are fun too for those reasons. I continue to mention our communities every once in a while on other platforms so we can gradually grow as well.