There have appeared hundreds of communities on my instance I have never searched. Where do they come from? Is it some spam attack? How do I prevent this, and how do I get rid of them?

  • pinkolik@random-hero.comOP
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    1 year ago

    Well, it says that I have 11 users on my instance. And I don’t mind having them if they are not bots or communities crawlers. But it’s hard for me to believe that 11 users could have searched so many communities in such a short period of time. Is there a way to check that they’re legit users?

    • HangingFruit@czech-lemmy.eu
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      1 year ago

      Not sure how to check if they’re bots or not, but I would enable captcha for registrations. Also that’s where I was pointing at, other users might have searched for these communities. I also have many of them on my instance which I’ve never searched for, and I think that it’s all from them. All it takes is for some random user to click on a community in a post and it’s then added to your instances.

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      1 year ago

      it’s hard for me to believe that 11 users could have searched so many communities

      There are a half-dozen scripts that do this automatically. It’s entirely believable.