Thank you for trying to get ahead of the spam influx. Trying to beat the spambots is a thankless task, but thank you anyhouw.

What about people like me who host an instance just for themselves, but don't have any communities in their own instance? What's the risk for me for getting blacklisted? I didn't find an clear answer by looking at the source code.

Maybe I'm being stupid, but how does this service actually determine suspicious-ness of instances?

If I self-host an instance, what are my chances of getting listed on here and then unilaterally blocked simply because I have a low active user count or something?

A funny result is the accumulation around server centers, here Hetzner.

“Lemmy Overseer “ is a creepy, ominous name. It sounds like the job title of some super strict, rules-obsessed, joyless office drone who works for the feds or a large corporation.

I feel like the python script is maybe a bit too extreme ? 20 times more users than posts might happen on smaller instances people use mostly to browse the big ones, I feel. I ran it with a suspicion ratio of 100 and it didn't seem to block any "legit looking communities". But then again, it is very hard to tell.

Thanks a lot for your work !

I'm loving the innovation in the fediverse, and all the people seeing issues, bringing them up, and people at least attempting to fix.

Awesome work! Hope kbin gets API soon so it'll be possible there

I really don't love this. Couldn't we extend the mastodon blocklist to cover Lemmy somehow? I don't like automated blocking. I'd much rather find a list of trusted admins, and defederate with whatever 60 percent of them defederate with.

Excellent! Thank you for doing this!

Sounds great, especially for instances with open registration!

Thank you, I just set up a SystemD timer for the Python script.

Thanks for the awesome work! I love seeing the OSS community building tooling for this stuff :D

maybe that's a dumb question, so sorry for that, but wouldn't it be easier to just use a whitelist for federation instead of a blocklist?

Brilliant, been holding my breath looking at the usercount. Hopefully this gets picked up by other instances.

That's a cool idea. Thanks for your work!

One question: Let's say the script defederates an instance and then the admin of that instance cleans up their database and makes sure no new bots can register. Would your script remove them from the blacklist or would I have to manually check if all instances on my blacklist are still "infested" to give them a second chance?