this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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[–] TheDude 38 points 2 years ago

Hey all,

I've been busy coding some counter measures for the attacks on this instance today. Most of the stuff has since been cleaned up. Have temporarily disabled community creation until we get some extra security implemented. The communities that you see above should all have been purged at this point. Thank you

[–] biela 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The majority of these communities were cleaned up by @[email protected] tonight but if you spot any more you can DM him or also raise the issue on the Matrix chat that we have here.

We're also working on implementing rate-limiting on our instance so these changes should make sh.itjust.works much less attractive to spammers.

[–] thetokenlady 14 points 2 years ago

The admin is working on it

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Good question.
You can't "report it" from Lemmy because there's not even a post there to report.
You can probably DM @[email protected] directly within Lemmy.

My guess is at some point, we'll probably have to decide whether to require approval for creating a community instead of allowing everything and purging the garbage. Idk.

[–] Shihali 6 points 2 years ago

A rate limit per day might knock down the spam without needing pre-approval.

[–] Methylman 4 points 2 years ago

It's come to my attention that some lemmings feel the need to create and test multiple communities to determine which ones succeed - no response when I pointed out they could do so on an instance they created

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah came here to post about it. What's even the point of creating these spam communities?

[–] can 7 points 2 years ago