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Defederation from instances suspected of becoming bots haven (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Lionir@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org

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We've defederated from :

lemmy.k6qw.com,lemmy.podycust.co.uk,waveform.social,bbs.darkwitch.net,cubing.social,lemmy.roombob.cat,lemmy.jtmn.dev,lemmy.juggler.jp,bolha.social,sffa.community,dot.surf,granitestate.social,veenk.help,lemmyunchained.net,wumbo.buzz,lemmy.sbs,lemmy.shwizard.chat,clatter.eu,mtgzone.com,oceanbreeze.earth,mindshare.space,lemmy.tedomum.net,voltage.vn,lemmy.fyi,demotheque.com,thediscussion.site,latte.isnot.coffee,news.deghg.org,lemmy.primboard.de,baomi.tv,marginalcuriosity.net,lemmy.cloudsecurityofficehours.com,lemmy.game-files.net,lemmy.fedi.bub.org,lemmy.blue,lemmy.easfrq.live,narod.city,lemmy.ninja,lemmy.reckless.dev,nlemmy.nl,lemmy.mb-server.com,rammy.site,fedit.io,diggit.xyz,slatepacks.com,theotter.social,lemmy.nexus,kleptonix.com,rabbitea.rs,zapad.nstr.no,feddi.no

based on the list of instances made by @sunaurus@lemm.ee here - Thank you again for that work, it's highly appreciated.

This is a preventive measure against massive amounts of accounts being created for botting purposes. Most instances banned appear to be 1 user instances so we don't think this will have a great effect on anyone's usage of Beehaw. If you are an admin of one of those instances, feel free to contact us at support@beehaw.org

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[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you believe this will be a workable model going forward, or are you considering changing to an Allowlist for federation and have instances specifically request to federate?

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

we don't think we need to switch to an allowlist--we actually haven't been hit by this spam problem much if at all to this point--but we'd also really like it if we had better mod tools so we can just flat rule out needing to switch to one ever

[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An allowlist would be nice if non-Allowlisted instances could still be discoverable by people using Beehaw IMO.

[–] TheCalzoneMan@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then users from inside Beehaw could request federation maybe?

[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, anyone could send us an email and we'd do a quick review. Adding then removing someone from the allowlist is easier if they cause trouble.