i guess it’s a case of each instance admin whacking these moles as they pop up. also having anti bot signup defenses.
I’m guessing there’s also stuff that could be done server side to stop single accounts sending the same message to > 100 people or something like that. not sure if that’s already implemented though.
Is there something that can be done across Lemmy to prevent mass spammers? Surprised nobody used this before. Got messaged twice so far.
One defense could be for an instance admin to set a maximum number of messages someone can send to different accounts on their instance per hour.
This would be a heuristic approach to combat spam but this function would first have to be implemented by the Lemmy developers.
honestly it always astounds me that developers don’t pre-emptively add ratelimiting, it’s such a basic thing to prevent misuse
i guess it’s a case of each instance admin whacking these moles as they pop up. also having anti bot signup defenses.
I’m guessing there’s also stuff that could be done server side to stop single accounts sending the same message to > 100 people or something like that. not sure if that’s already implemented though.