Peeps, I strongly urge you to start monitoring new instances and defederate ones which appear to be filling up fast
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/432a70b5-5dc8-4229-a323-d017862b1683.png
Peeps, I strongly urge you to start monitoring new instances and defederate ones which appear to be filling up fast
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/432a70b5-5dc8-4229-a323-d017862b1683.png
You could either outright defederate now or wait until possible spam starts and then defederate it. The community at large might want to maintain a list of bad instances.
The problem is probably similar to email spam. It's not easy or fun to deal with.
The problem is that lemmy by default provides little support for anti-spam measures, and makes new communities allow open registrations by default.
Lemmy will have to eventually add anti spam features or it may end up getting eaten alive by it. Else, the only option is to rate limit signups, which is bad because that will limit new legitimate users.
Email and usenet are full of spam, and there is nothing fundamentally different about lemmy than email.
yeah this is sus
Meta community. Discuss about this lemmy instance or lemmy in general.