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[-] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It likely is spam/bot accounts. Multiple admins of instances with open reg have commented/posted about having to fight bot sign-ups the past few days. The only fix that helped (they said) was to enable captcha. There's a git issue on the lemmy project mentioning that they are removing captcha, so the admins are particularly worried about that...

this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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