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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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[–] Rentlar 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.

[–] troyunrau 8 points 2 years ago

We appreciate your hard work. 😍

[–] PenguinTD 6 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the hard works!

[–] adespoton 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What happens when somewhere like beehaw surpasses 10,000?

[–] TheWaterGod 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From the original post, it sounds like this is for instances where there's a massive influx of users but little to no posts/comments. For example, the top of the spreadsheet lists lemmy.podycust.co.uk that has >86000 users and 9 Posts/34 Comments. That honestly seems pretty suspicious to me. So I don't think Beehaw or any legitimate instance is going to caught in this.

[–] smorks 3 points 2 years ago

exactly this. i didn't word it properly above, and have edited it for more clarity.

thanks!

[–] sinnerdotbin 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I believe .world has, though it still shows up as linked: https://lemmy.ca/instances

However there is another thread here about .world federation issues. I tested it and .world isn't syncing here.

@smorks does the configuration or tool you are using for this reflect in the linked/blocked page or is it blocked on another level when this +10,000 user block kicks in?

*edit: tested from .ml which has more than 10,000 users and worked. However if it is by "active" user, .ml, behaw below 10,000 where .world is above.

[–] ekZeno 3 points 2 years ago

[–] 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!

[–] n7gifmdn 1 points 2 years ago

good move