Preemptive Blocking of Instances with high potential bot counts (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/919010

I have taken the advice from this post and blocked all instances with > 10,000 users, from this list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRthB7RtY4Rr0t5fhVKaliJnwSmptMc5oJi7uha_OBcF4wpu4eElxAxNzaCqjlq6NsOE9GpgSnMzZ2x/pubhtml

I will continue to monitor things and will make another announcement if more blocks are necessary.

If anybody is interested in getting a cleaned up instance federated again, feel free to contact me over DM (if you’re currently blocked, you can contact me on Matrix: @smorks:40to.ca).

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Good choice. Just like email botspam will be an ongoing issue so we will need both backend integrated as well as server operated mitigation approaches.

this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023

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