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Spam flooded instances? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 years ago by db0 to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/87753

Checked the fediverse observer and I see a lot instances with barely any activity skyrocketing to the top of registered users. I can only surmise they're being flooded with spam accounts and haven't noticed.

Example: https://cubing.social/

How much should we worry about this? Should we be taking pre-emptive steps to defederate them to avoid those spam accounts being utilized against the threadiverse?

The spam problem is already on our doostep and we need to seriously start considering how we're going to handle it ASAP. We need to take knowledge from how email dealt with it and find ways to quickly distribute knowledge about spam instances.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I noticed that a bot had started rapidly creating accounts on my instance. None of them used a real email address though, and email verification is required. I've since started requiring an application though, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Yes.. They really should enable captcha if they haven't already. Like .world also ours got 'abused' by idle spam accounts

Not sure yet why but many Lemmy instance user numbers don't add up anymore

(Plus it's also causing major mail issues, at least with Mailgun)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe start by alerting those admins of the potential problem and give them a chance to respond.

[–] db0 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Sorry but no. I am not going to start going around doing that. I would be doing nothing else with my life. Same way that if someone sets up an open email relay, it's nobody else's fault when email providers start blacklisting them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Except this is much smaller and more nascent than email, which has been around for decades. I don't think proactively de-federating instances that have done anything yet is the wrong approach at this time.

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