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❗️Admins: REQUIRE E-MAIL VERIFICATION OR A CAPTCHA FOR REGISTRATION (i.ibb.co)
submitted 1 year ago by retiolus@lemmy.cat to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cat/post/6385

It is currently possible, through Lemmy's API, to create accounts automatically and without limit if verification by email address or captcha is not activated. I'd advise you to activate one or both of them NOW!

After registering x number of accounts (currently I could do thousands), all you have to do is list all the existing communities for each of the account to publishes one new post per community, or more. I'll leave you to picture the mess.

(I apologise to the administrators of sh.itjust.works, I should have done the test with my own server.)

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[-] PenguinLover@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

This is indeed not an ideal situation, but I guess on most instances this isn't possible. I agree instances should require a captcha of some sort for signing up.

[-] zeerooth@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately lemmy devs removed captchas recently https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2922 so email verification and/or rate limiting is probably the only real option for protection.

[-] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 1 points 1 year ago

I saw some small instance owners saying they were going to enable open registration and I couldn't help thinking how bad an idea that sounded all around... For exactly a situation such as this inevitably emerging.

[-] Pekka@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

I was playing a bit with the API today and yea it might even be a bit too easy at the moment. You can easily use that army of Lemmy bots to upvote all your posts.

We should probably make it very clear in tutorials and setup guides that no email verification and no captcha is very insecure.

[-] Zaphodquixote@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Fuck captcha

this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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