Gregory's ServerFediDB.org will be unlisting Lemmy instances with excessive spam accounts and few MAU effective June 28th.
If the unlisted instances do not remove spam accounts and still report inflated user counts a month later, they will be banned.
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@edfattell @dansup might be because mastodon.world has a good reputation already, might also be because the creators of Lemmy have been flagged as prejudiced in some ways (I confess I've forgotten the details).  @mikestevens @dansup hmm good to know. Right now I’m on lemmy ml, but I have no good reason to be. We’ll see how this shakes out. I’m kinda confused about what’s going on with beehaw and defederating right now. Kinda hard to keep track of.  I have reconsidered this and will no longer be unlisting lemmy instances with large number of spam signups. Instead I'd like to explore a way to label potential spam instances in a way that doesn't exclude instances.  @dansup maybe a flag of some kind that can sit near the instance name or something? like “Suspected Spam” or “Potential Spam”? @dansup Not many people have their ego sufficiently in check to be able to publicly say “this idea I had was the wrong one”. Good job.  @dansup You should put a yellow flag next to the name and when you hover over it you get a little message explaining that it might be spam  @dansup perhaps some kind of instance reputation? Been in use for years for mail servers so a lot of problems have likely been addressed already.  |
@dansup why is #lemmy world so popular in comparison to lemmy ml?