I have noticed recent slowness on this instance today, it wasn’t like this previously, the server is under heavy load, which makes sense because right now, we are gaining 100 new users or more each hour.

Please bear with the instance, it’s totally worth sticking around. Lemmy is the future and is going through some growing pains but will equalise over time.

Update: found this post https://lemmy.world/post/305667

The user count may not be genuine users and I feel that Lemmy instances might be under a type of DDOS attack

  • SensOPEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    @tom@feddit.uk I looped you into another thread I found on http://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted. Another admin has discovered their user counts are going up massively due to spam users joining. They solved it by adding capta to the sign up process.

    Since not much new content is happening here after this user influx. I’m going to assume it’s the same here and it’s an attack on Lemmy as a whole.

    • tomMAEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      No worries made a comment in the other thread but I’ve enabled captcha and email verification

      • AstigmaEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        I don’t know if this is possible but it might be worthwhile removing accounts that were created during this influx after 7 days if they have no user activity (posts or comments). It then removes the possibility of your instance being used as an attack vector against other instances which would probably get it defederated quite quickly.