donio@lemmy.world
on 21 Feb 2024 20:39
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How visible is this to the average user? Just wondering because I have yet to see any spam at all in my Mastodon feeds.
Big thanks to the admins for being on top of it!
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
on 22 Feb 2024 12:25
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technomad@slrpnk.net
on 21 Feb 2024 18:27
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This seems like a good opportunity to prove the resiliency of the protocol to me.
We will weather this shit.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
on 22 Feb 2024 12:27
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On feddit.de, when I registered (during the great reddit migration), I had to write a short introduction about myself too. I believe it was read by a moderator and manually accepted, but I’m not sure.
We require an email address and a response to a question on our signups. The response doesn’t need to be more than about 5 words, it’s just to stop bots putting random characters or single words in there.
So far, it has seemed to ride that balance between low bar of entry and too hard to spam with bot applicants.
That said, if I wanted to spam the Fediverse, I’d just spin up my own instance of Lemmy or Mastodon.
JonEFive@midwest.social
on 22 Feb 2024 04:08
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That said, if I wanted to spam the Fediverse, I’d just spin up my own instance of Lemmy or Mastodon.
Its actually smarter for spammers to infiltrate populated servers. Admins aren’t going to have a problem defederating from a pure spam instance. They’ll think twice about defederating from an instance with lots of legit users.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
on 22 Feb 2024 12:33
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How visible is this to the average user? Just wondering because I have yet to see any spam at all in my Mastodon feeds. Big thanks to the admins for being on top of it!
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This seems like a good opportunity to prove the resiliency of the protocol to me.
We will weather this shit.
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Yeah, don’t offer open signups, kids.
What exactly is an “open” signup? Is it as opposed to invite only?
On feddit.de, when I registered (during the great reddit migration), I had to write a short introduction about myself too. I believe it was read by a moderator and manually accepted, but I’m not sure.
We require an email address and a response to a question on our signups. The response doesn’t need to be more than about 5 words, it’s just to stop bots putting random characters or single words in there.
So far, it has seemed to ride that balance between low bar of entry and too hard to spam with bot applicants.
That said, if I wanted to spam the Fediverse, I’d just spin up my own instance of Lemmy or Mastodon.
Its actually smarter for spammers to infiltrate populated servers. Admins aren’t going to have a problem defederating from a pure spam instance. They’ll think twice about defederating from an instance with lots of legit users.
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