Hello All,
So today a few Lemmy instances have been hit by a spam bot. We had 80 new accounts created in a matter of minutes, but thankfully due to email verification being required, none have been able to actually complete the sign up process.
Because of this, I’ve had to enable further measures to ensure sign ups are real people. Anyone signing up will now need to explain that they’re human AND verify their email address. This seems to have stopped the bots for now.
Because manual approval is required for each account, I’m looking to appoint a community member to help moderate and admin the instance.
If you’re interested, please send me a message (click on my profile and click send message) and give me a quick.overview of yourself and why you want to admin the instance.
To be eligible you must:
- be a member of Lemmy.zip
- account must be suitably old (minimum 3 days)
- must be active on Lemmy
If you think this is something you’d be interested in then please send me a message.