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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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[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I added these to my list as well. I am still seriously back and forth on whether to open my instance up in a week or so.

You all are one of the larger instances. Is there anyt outreach or communications that can be made to ensure I dont end up on said list?

[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can always send us an email if that ever happens.

That said - if you open, enable captcha and honestly, I'd recommend you do an application process and think about the community you wanna build.

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That said - if you open, enable captcha and honestly, I’d recommend you do an application process and think about the community you wanna build.

Yeah that's a definite thing on mine now as is, if for no other reason than to maintain clean relations with my hosting provider. TBH my instance will be user/federated only. Dont really have the time or willpower to moderate communities. Just want a place for folks to sign up and be able to access other communities like yours.

But that will also require some coordination in some cases. Dont really have any care to host trolls or folks that argue in bad faith though either. Will easily just ban em.

[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Dont really have the time or willpower to moderate communities. Just want a place for folks to sign up and be able to access other communities like yours.

Oh, what I meant is - what demographic are you trying to get? Are you trying to get everyone? Nice people? People from a certain region? Not necessarily making a community group on your server

Though, for trollings, since you get all the reports about your users, that should be easy enough