I’m new to the fediverse, and so far, I have been seeing some situations from lemmy instances rejecting users to defederating from others, but I ask myself: what can be done if trolls or bots come from self-hosted single-user instances?

    • Gsus4@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Well, if we had a DDOS-like barrage of troll instances, probably a solution would be to institute a “pending federation request” for any new communities.

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        1 year ago

        A reputation/trustworthiness rating for instances might be helpful too, something akin to karma but for the instance as a whole. More vulnerable communities would be able to set a minimum trust requirement for unapproved participation.

      • llama@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        This should be the default in the next Lemmy version because otherwise it’s only going to get easier for people to launch new instances and it’s going to get too overwhelming

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        1 year ago

        Looks interestsing.

        Would it be also possible to ask for a captcha on the first interactions users from new instances make?

        • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          No, because they would have to solve captchas on every instance they’re federated with. You’d be solving like 29 captchas per post