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What's the approach to dealing with self-hosted trolls? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by naoseiquemsou@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm new to the fediverse, and so far, I have been seeing some situations from lemmy instances rejecting users to defederating from others, but I ask myself: what can be done if trolls or bots come from self-hosted single-user instances?

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[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They get defederated wherever they get consistently banned...and then they can federate with their friends and make their community of shit and yell at each other or something.

[–] naoseiquemsou@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can it be practical if several instances get created programmatically?

[–] tinwhiskers@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I believe there is a whitelist mode, that isn't currently enabled but in that mode new instances are defederated by default. That would be a pain to administer for all the small instances joining, so they may set some size or reputation rules to apply for federation (??). I imagine this is inevitable if automated instance spamming becomes a problem, unless some type of RBL comes in vogue for managing federation first. It may become impossible to manage manually.

E: oh the whitelist thing may only be relevant to kbin federation, as that was the topic I saw it in. Sometimes I forget where I am :-/