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Massive spam account wave? (geddit.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by SteveDinn to c/main

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Stux from geddit.social think that the massive recent wave of ~100k new Lemmy accounts is likely mostly spammers. Captchas suck, but are they better than the alternative?

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

Looking at the snap below, I'm getting worried about the integrity of this and other instances if all of these accounts start posting. There are many more like these. I counted at least 30 of them. For example if all of them try to post a 1MB image to a community in this instance. 💀

If there's no protection against the above scenario, preemptive defederation might be warranted. Maybe even with a public post on here that lists the defederated instances, where any owners of mistakenly swatted instances can appeal.

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E: Someone's already doing an implementation.

[–] smorks 2 points 2 years ago

yeah, I think I might preemptively block them. a different admin has been trying to contact them to get them aware, and had a list of some that had deleted the accounts and implemented captchas or whatever.