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Closing registrations in Fedia.io due to spammers (fedia.io)

submitted 2 months ago by jerry@fedia.io to c/fedia@fedia.io

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Until I implement a better system to screen out spammers, I will be closing registrations on Fedia.io. That’s not what I want - I’d like for it to be available for legitimate accounts, but the spam is off the hook.

Anyone seeing this can send me an email (jerry@infosec.exchange) and I’ll get an account created for you in the mean time.

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[–] Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Spammers room everything

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I know it's not ideal, but I fully understand the whole situation. Let's focus on making Mbin better for the existing users who are now experiencing CSRF or log-out problems. Hopefully after that, we can focus on improving anti-spam (since hcaptcha is not preventing any spam accounts for some unknown reason).

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe even considering additional an optional question? With only 1 correct answer. Or maybe even enforce 2FA.. I dunno.. But spam is getting out of control. Coincidence due to the rise of LLMs? Who knows. But anti-spam like hCaptcha, even set to "difficult" doesn't seem to cut it anymore...

[–] jerry@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What works for me on both mastodon and Lemmy is a free text question: why do you want to join?

The user enters whatever they like and it goes into a moderation queue. Both lemmy and mastodon send me an email when a new account is ready to review.

I read the response and choose to whether to approve their account. At the moment, spammers are really bad at answering the “why do you want to join” questions.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 month ago

Makes sense as well.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The main thing I experience since the CDN update is that voting often ends up in an error page, similar to how adding comments sometimes directs you to a secondary page (luckily with the comment intact). Going back and trying to vote again may or may not work.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This issue is discussed here: https://fedia.io/m/fedia/t/1101127

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I did not have that 3 weeks ago though, and they're not 500s - at least they're not displayed as that. I get pages like this one: https://fedia.io/ecv/7319083/-1

[–] jerry@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

There were lots of changes around the same time. I removed fedia.io from the CDN a few days ago though didn't announce it, yet the errors continue.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

Thank you for preventing spam!