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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Nah lol, I'm an admin and could see all the email addresses they were using. Fake af

[–] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

tbf disposable email services are a thing

[–] quickpen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

But my email is a Fastmail masked email, it’s randomly generated l, so it might look fake as well ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] aceospos@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Do you have tips/advice for hosting a lemmy instance on a LAN? I'm looking to get acquainted with administering an instance using the docker route on a Proxmox Ubuntu container without much success. I'm hoping to eventually host an instance for the West African community

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well that's what I get for making my email address chuqid71bdu6@hotmail.com

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

Lmao yeah that pretty much looks like what they were using.

But the way I took care of it was just deleting users who hadn't completed their email verification within one hour. The bots haven't actually done email verification YET