Please. Captcha by default. Email domain filters. Auto-block federation from servers that don't respect. By default. Urgent.
And yes, to refute some comments, this publication is being upvoted by bots. A single computer was needed, not "thousands of dollars" spent.
Email domain filters
Okay, gmail should definitely be blacklisted, because it's extremely easy to abuse. Microsoft email domains too. What domains should be allowed then?
Email domain filtering makes no sense when it is easy enough to just set up your own email server for bots. It will only hinder legit users and low level bad actors, not the real threat of major bot farms.
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We need a distributed decentralized curated whitelist that new servers will apply for and hopefully get a quick week max response after some kind of precisely defined anti spam/bot audit. Also then periodic checks of existing servers.
Like crypto has transaction ledger confirmed some kind of notabot confirmation ledger
Just saw a WAVE of bot art flow down the "Top New" feed. It then promptly stopped. And then when I reloaded the page, it was gone. So I think it's working...
Lmao are you the guy from yesterday?
Whats the purpose of these bots?
Can't wait to have other people say what I can or cannot see. /s
Please stop trying to tell me how to run my instance. If I wanted your input or your rules I would have joined your instance.
If you have a problem with my instance you're in your right to defederate or block me. But I do not care about your plea to enable shit that I don't want to enable.
What I will say is that congrats! You've shown that you're willing to bot manipulate your post. That earns a ban from my instance! That's the glory of the Fediverse.
I get you probably don't care at all about people who interact with your community but letting bots run free is something I really dislike. I suspect the majority of users feel the same.
Just takes one disgruntled person who is unhappy with you to flood your server without any captcha or other measures taken to prevent it. Might be still under the radar to a degree as of right now but that will not always be the case.
The only way to get rid of the bots is for moderators to pay attention.
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