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Preemptive Blocking of Instances with high potential bot counts (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I have taken the advice from this post and blocked all instances with > 10,000 users, from this list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRthB7RtY4Rr0t5fhVKaliJnwSmptMc5oJi7uha_OBcF4wpu4eElxAxNzaCqjlq6NsOE9GpgSnMzZ2x/pubhtml

I will continue to monitor things and will make another announcement if more blocks are necessary.

If anybody is interested in getting a cleaned up instance federated again, feel free to contact me over DM (if you’re currently blocked, you can contact me on Matrix: @smorks:40to.ca).

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

Would you consider re-federating with sffa.community? Their admins are aware of the issue and have taken steps to get rid of bot accounts and prevent new bot accounts from signing up.

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

they were just removed from our block list earlier today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Woohoo! You guys move fast, thanks!