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Preemptive Blocking of Instances with high potential bot counts (self.main)

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

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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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[–] floofloof 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does this mean lemmy.ca is now defederated from lemmy.world, lemmy.ml and beehaw.org, among others? These all have more than 10,000 users.

https://the-federation.info/platform/73

[–] smorks 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

no. sorry i wasn't clear in the post above. i meant instances with > 10,000 users from the list that @[email protected] is maintaining here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRthB7RtY4Rr0t5fhVKaliJnwSmptMc5oJi7uha_OBcF4wpu4eElxAxNzaCqjlq6NsOE9GpgSnMzZ2x/pubhtml

[–] CanadianCorhen 3 points 2 years ago

thanks for the clarification!