EuphoricPenguin22

Hello, I noticed that my user count started going up much quicker than it should have. We probably have no more than 20-30 people on my instance at most, but the user count is now into the thousands.

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~~I'm not really sure what could be causing this, but it seems like some sort of database issue. I recently upgraded the server plan, since it's a VPS. Perhaps sending the shutdown signal and not manually stopping the Docker container caused PostgreSQL to shit itself. (Yeah, this was probably a bad idea). While I'm a bit rusty, I did have a semester class on SQL that might come in handy. Any ideas on what I should do?~~

~~I suppose it could also be account spammers, so I did try and enable captchas. Unfortunately, email verification is still not an option for me to enable at this point. Assuming this was the issue, is there a way to remove the spam accounts?~~

The captcha did seem to stop the endless tick of the user count, but I'm not sure how we can get rid of the spam accounts.

I just used the tool linked here in the documentation to create a Bootstrap theme, but I can't find the folder they're referencing. I've used Ansible to install Lemmy, which is working fine, but I'm not really sure how to handle themes as a result. Do I place them somewhere in my Ansible stuff, or is there that directory somewhere on the server? I found the Docker /volumes/ folder, but the directory names were random strings and not labeled like they supposedly are at the link above.

Pretty awesome tacky-soundfont-filled remake-vaporwave-parody of sorts. It's based on Sea is a Lady by Toshiki Kadomatsu, one of the better city pop instrumental albums out there.

I used the Ansible playbook instructions and got my instance up and running, which is where I'm sending this from now. Still, I was not able to get the SMTP side of things working. Does this whole setup self-host SMTP on the Lemmy instance, or is it something I'll have to sort out externally? I've heard some people have had issues with Digital Ocean on certain ports, which is the VPS provider I'm hosting on, but even other ports I've tried have not worked.

I'm having this error most of the time I try to comment. It seems to be because I can't manually select the comment language like I can on the web UI.

Hey all,

Assuming I can get this to go through, how long will my new instance start federating properly? I did the curl tests, and I'm getting back proper JSON. I also see a few posts appearing on my timeline, but things still seem a bit wonky. Also, do I need to ask other instances to add this instance to their allowlist, or will things sort themselves out? I was also under the impression that placing no servers in the allowlist would put the server into "open" mode, which is my goal. Does it work that way?

Thank you,

EuphoricPenguin