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This is a community for general discussion where you can get your bearings in the fediverse. Discuss topics & ask questions that don't seem to fit in any other community, or don't have an active community yet.

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Lemmy.world is now the biggest Lemmy instance! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, a nice feature of federation is that real communities can adjust their sign-up processes to minimize bot sign-ups, and while determined botfarms can spin up their own servers, that leads to pretty much the least controversial use case for admins to block another server.

Mastodon's run into similar issues in the past with both bots and scrapers and typically no one has any issue with admins there defederating and entirely blocking those servers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, malicious instances can always be defederated and cleaned from the caches.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Until they startblockingg new servers that are harmless