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Devine Lu Linvega

I honestly don't know how to deal with the current onslaught of spam. Is the solution to defed from every open registration instances?

17 February at 15:54 | Open on merveilles.town
16 comments
voxel

@neauoire I'm really not seeing any, is it only impacting certain users? Maybe you can make your account private until it's over?

17 February at 15:56 | Open on merveilles.town
Devine Lu Linvega

@voxel the issue is that it doesn't impact just me, other members of the instance seems to be targetted by this, and I can't imagine that solution is to ask everyone on the instance to go private.

17 February at 15:57 | Open on merveilles.town
icco

@neauoire @voxel I'm also not seeing much spam, but I was reading some posts from other administrators talking about specific instances to block, let me see if I can find those posts.

17 February at 16:03 | Open on merveilles.town
Devine Lu Linvega

@icco @voxel I saw that post and I've blocked all those :) This morning it seems to be mostly on mastodon instances.

17 February at 16:04 | Open on merveilles.town
R E K

@voxel @neauoire based on current reports, it's affecting 4-5 ppl on our instance (im part of those affected). This is assuming others are blocking the accounts instead of reporting the spam. (edit, got that backward hehe)

17 February at 16:07 | Open on merveilles.town
Helvetica Blanc

@rek @voxel @neauoire I'm one of the folks affected, and am happy to go private till the wave subsides.

I feel very silly asking, but where exactly is the option to do so? I can't seem to find it. 😂

17 February at 16:48 | Open on merveilles.town
R E K

@helveticablanc @voxel @neauoire Don't think the account can be made private, not in the twitter sense, or at least I don't see how. You can make changes to make your account less visible, though.

A thing that might help is that you can block notifications from non-followers, or ppl you don't follow (in preferences>notifications).

17 February at 17:21 | Open on merveilles.town
Helvetica Blanc

@rek @voxel @neauoire Ahhh gotcha! So it doesn't really prevent spam as much as hides it! I'll try it out!

17 February at 17:45 | Open on merveilles.town
Sven

@neauoire (silences for open instances should be enough, no?)

17 February at 16:01 | Open on chaos.social
Devine Lu Linvega
Sven

@neauoire ah, meant more that if you have a list of open instances, it might make more sense to silence them all, not completely block them, so some "real" interactions stay possible.

17 February at 20:29 | Open on chaos.social
bugwitched 🐝🐇🦨 🎃🧙🐸

@neauoire not necessarily, but they do need to be pressured to deploy some kind of floodgate (e.g. CAPTCHA) and (provisional) defederation is one way to do that

17 February at 16:05 | Open on chitter.xyz
ex_06

@neauoire if only there was a third way between allow list and block list, like a proof-of-invite-federation with some kind of mechanism to share an invite-tree lobster-like between servers

17 February at 16:10 | Open on puntarella.party
WimⓂ️

@neauoire I've managed by blocking and adding filters but it's very ad-hoc. I hope it's a wave that will pass.

17 February at 17:25 | Open on merveilles.town
Somnius :server_tiger:

@neauoire I saw this recommendation here to add filters: meow.social/@Nomaxice/11194968 that should be at least a temporary stopgap for users experiencing this

18 February at 2:36 | Open on merveilles.town
makeworld

@neauoire I really think defederating from open instances would be a mistake and fragment the network. That should be a final resort if at all.

18 February at 17:10 | Open on merveilles.town
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