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Talya (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️

@dansup thanks. just happened for the first time in a huge wave on one of the instances I manage (usually it's one by one and we block them in minutes, but this time it was 79 of them in a row).

16 February at 7:07 | Wall-to-wall | Open on 433.world
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Trankten :vf: :tkz: :lat:

@alternative @Yuvalne @dansup Problem is the randomness.

Usually the bots register a few accounts in every instance they find so a Fediblock tends to affect every user in the instance who have regular posts and legitimate use the Fediverse. A list of instances is not going to help but can mitigate if they are blocked manually.

It is up to #MastoAdmins to suspend the accounts in their instances as soon as possible, but the problem comes with unattended instances with open registrations, which are quite a few and if no active moderation is taking, more spam bots will register and will end Fediblocked.

Regards.

@alternative @Yuvalne @dansup Problem is the randomness.

Usually the bots register a few accounts in every instance they find so a Fediblock tends to affect every user in the instance who have regular posts and legitimate use the Fediverse. A list of instances is not going to help but can mitigate if they are blocked manually.

16 February at 7:29 | Open on tkz.one
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@trankten @Yuvalne @dansup

Some says The biggest reason is that there is no Captcha system when joining

and i thinkt it's very reasonable

16 February at 7:33 | Open on indieweb.social
Talya (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️

@alternative @dansup @trankten
I'm an admin of tooot.im from the list. we mitigated that by this point. also, ironically enough, once I posted about the incident from my admin account, I started getting these spam messages to that account from other instances.

16 February at 7:32 | Open on 433.world
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Trankten :vf: :tkz: :lat:

@Yuvalne @alternative @dansup Same happened to me!

When I posted about the spam publicly, the bots started to register in my instance but suspended them asap.

Some of them have the same IP address while others don't so it seems they are behind a VPN. IP blocking might block legitimate users who use a VPN to prevent ISP geoblock. Not an option for me. I am not 100% sure what to do beyond manual check.

Bots! Bots everywhere!
16 February at 7:37 | Open on tkz.one
Talya (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️

@trankten @alternative @dansup
I checked some of the IP ranges and found one where most of our bots lie but also one of our users. so I just restricted sign ups from that range for 1 month.

16 February at 8:08 | Open on 433.world
Trankten :vf: :tkz: :lat:

@Yuvalne @alternative @dansup Oh that's amazing and probably a good idea. Is it possible for you to share the IP ranges? Maybe we can check on that all together and find some pattern or users responsible somehow.

16 February at 8:14 | Open on tkz.one
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