this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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Plot twist: All of the "bot accounts" were actually a huge influx of Reddit users who were lurking. By removing the accounts / defederating with their instances, we've sent them all back to Reddit, ensuring Reddit can pull through the mass exodus.
Nah lol, I'm an admin and could see all the email addresses they were using. Fake af
tbf disposable email services are a thing
But my email is a Fastmail masked email, it’s randomly generated l, so it might look fake as well ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Well that's what I get for making my email address [email protected]
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