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I made a mistake. I forgot to cahnge the setting after updating to screen for bots. This is getting out of hand. Luckily database commands aren't too hard.

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[–] RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did they get federated to other instances? I wonder if those records are still in peer databases.

[–] RGB@lemmyfi.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they might be. but they won't be able to log in to break stuff.

[–] RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Denial of service by putting data into the system is happening just from routine user activity. And that gets into multiple servers. Lemmy scaling is beyond crisis point.