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Huh. In the list with “fastest growing #Lemmy instances” are only spam instances now
I’m currently creating an instance ban list for Geddit to block those instances if they don’t take action… This is a disaster waiting to happen :lemmy:
I’ve already seen and reported an obvious, low-effort spam comment. Looks like they don’t use particularly sophisticated methods.
I guess the openness of the registration process and instance creation would invite this low effort type of attack. I also bumped in a post that reported community name squating, where accounts were creating empty communities with popular subreddit names in order to sell them later on I guess? I just don’t see the actual benefit of it, it seems more of an oppurtinistic play more than anything else.
Community name squatting doesn’t make sense at all because different instances can have communities with the same name. So unless they manage to create one on all the big instances, that’s completely useless.
That’s what it seems like to me too. Plus there is nothing stopping admins of instances transferring ownership in these situations.
Exactly. Federated services seem to be much more resilient against abuse by design.