I ran into the issue on my instance as well, but checking the Captcha option in admin settings, stopped the signups for me.

How about adding a captcha? I was surprised there was none when I signed up.

can't have anything nice nowadays

I love how transparent you are with the management of this instance. Kudos!

Sounds frustrating. Thanks for doing what you do and letting us join your server! Hope the captcha works out.

I solved this problem once. What you do is have a custom captcha that you code yourself. It can be as simple as "What is 2+3?" and have 10-20 questions that you rotate between. Most spammers will be too lazy to update their spambot.

Those usernames are so unimaginative. Who would pick a name like that?

Same on Geddit.social

Also fixed now!

Last time a website I was managing was bombarded with spam signups, I set up a regular expression to check for the incredibly distinctive format the spammers were using... then it reports success but doesn't actually create the account or send an email. Spam problem over.

Becareful with this. There's a clear trend of massive amount of bot accounts flooding lemmy as a whole

I got in just in time! For the record, the sign up date seems to be broken. My account is less than a day old and it says I've been here since the 14th. Unless maybe it counts cookies or something?

Thanks for staying on top of things! Really appreciate your efforts!

I was trying to open my account just when lemmy.world was closed earlier. When I pressed the button to create it I only got and enless "charging" animation. But when it reopened, I just started the process again, and was as easy as a breeze and extremely fast. Glad to be here! (and this is my first post)

User on kbin here, just tried to sign up to lemmy.world.. looks like everything crashed and burned when tried to sign up there.

I've run into this issue with some of my servers in the past and it's a real PITA to deal with because not only do you have to mitigate the issue, but then you have to make requests to get de-blacklisted, etc. I finally got sick of it all and installed a Barracuda spam firewall in front of the mail server. I have MUCH easier control over IMAP/SMTP now.

Wanna recruit a helper who promises nothing but benevolent assistance?

Damn bots, hope the Lemmy community can figure out a good way to deal with that.

People are setting up instances to serve as bot farms. I think they should add instances to Lemmy through some kind of vetting process, or maybe publish an official blacklist.

A lot of sign-ups are coming from bots on established instances, but the application method of screening is somewhat off-putting. I hope the community can devise a better one to replace it with at some point. I mean it's no skin off my nose since I have three good login instances now, but better to make sign-ups as attractive as possible for actual human beings.

How to add something to the list if it isn’t advertised on the old sub?

Thank you for working to get signups working once more!

Wow that was quick, amazing job as always!

Lucky me, I guess, since I use a masked email address that looks fake too (anon addy). I really dislike to give my email address when testing Reddit alternatives.

OK that makes sense, I was trying to sign up and couldn't figure out why everything was timing out. Sorry if my attempts looked like spam.

edit: it still doesn't work for me btw