So, lemmy seems to be flooded with spam bot accounts at the moment. Look through the table of servers on fedidb (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy) and notice how there are these huge instances without any active users (MAU).

Also notice how startrek.website has 9000 users for 276 active users this month.

From memory, when I signed up, there was no email requirement or captcha or anything.

Admins … maybe you want to tighten things up?

  • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website
    2·
    1 year ago

    Thank you for your care of this place, and due diligence.

    With the instance growing so quickly, aggregate stats can flag but are vulnerable to aliasing.

    I very much appreciate the path to lemmy membership that you offered to us in the final hours before many of the subreddits went dark.

    The there is a ratcheting chain of new members to this and other Lemmy instances is still happening. I have the sense that there’s still a lot of private chat on Reddit as folks looking for a new place to be are enquiring of those who’ve already migrated.

    All to say, when it is sorted, it would be great to have an updated sticky with the details so those of us here can support the less tech adept among us make the transition.