Early last week it was ~600 registered users, then last Friday ~700-800, 5 hours ago it was ~2.8k and now its 3.1k

Update: It has come to my attention that Lemmy is under a spam user registration attack. Feddit.uk is not the only instance affected.

https://lemmy.cat/post/6401

Side note: Starting to notice some instance server load issues here. Not as snappy as it was due to the influx of new spam users.

Update 20th June: Tom has now enabled captcha and email verification on feddit.uk

Don’t forget to check the sidebar out on the feddit.uk homepage and donate to @[email protected] to assist with server upkeep and hopefully more server resource.

  • tom@feddit.ukM
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    1 year ago

    I’ve enabled captcha for the login and I’ve added email verification. This does mean I had to update each of the current users as verified emails however, as otherwise no one would be able to log in.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve just tried to sign up for an account and it said it has sent a verification email to me but nothing has arrived or in junk. Should this be an instant thing or are you having to manually do this? Cheers!