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Nay.
I do support blocking spam servers and bot farms, but what's our criteria?
We need more information. How sure are we that they're bot farms?
Aye
Aye, as long as there's an easy way to unblock.
Hey! It's the hypothetical software we were just talking about!
This sounds really useful. Having to have each admin independently de-federate from spam instances is a huge overhead that a tool like this would help with.
Wow, this platform is growing up before our eyes.
Thanks https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/db0.
It's my understanding that db0 was a mod over at r/piracy and was able to get a big chunk of subscribers to come over to Lemmy. Good on him for being one of the only reddit mods to take a stand.
Nay! We should alert them of their mistake and help them fix it. We should only defederate from instances that are only host bots.
Aye but allow for some process for these instances to get themselves back in good graces. One mistake on the admins end and he wakes up with 30k bots. Might not be totally on purpose.
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Nay.
I don't like bots much, but this is still an assumption. I don't want to get into preventative de-federation, if it is at all possible to avoid it.
The Meta/Facebook instance(s) should be though.
Yes
Aye
This is definitely gonna turn into a mess for servers that don't take care of this pre-emptively
Aye.
It's pretty obvious which ones are botted instances. 30,000 users and 20 total posts on the instance? That's a bot.
Not necessarily, my account is on SDF because of their solid uptime, lack of defederated instances, relatively low user count compared to the more bloated instances, and a general appreciation for SDF's ethos. I generally don't post in many local communities.
However there will be some where it's obvious for sure. I just worry about people on lesser know instances that might not allow free creation of communities, but have policies they agree with.
Aye But with human review