this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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As the title says, lemm.ee is defederating instances that are allowing thousands of spam bots to be created on them. Will we be taking similar action? What is the game plan here?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

So far, we have a captcha on account creation now and it seems to be working (from what I've seen, anyway)

It'll be a tough balancing act though. Relatively frictionless sign-up has been great for us, and anything that deals with bots will also affect that. Whatever else we may end up doing will need to be carefully considered.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Great question, great read. Thanks for posting this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally, I think adding a recaptcha and possibly a recovery email are reasonable to add to sign in.

When I made my account this past weekend, it was refreshing to only need a username and password, but it's also way too easy to abuse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure email even does anything though. It will depend if that instance even has SMTP set up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Jerry seems like he's still just trying to put out fires and get fedia running smoothly, it appears like we're almost there, and then I can only assume he'll be able to talk big picture at that point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Always heavenly quality items +5% for folks working against spam