Vamp to Lemmy.world Support • 11 months agoThere's a person who is spam creating hundreds of communites with impossibly long descriptions on world, why haven't they been banned yet?imagemessage-square58arrow-up1449arrow-down125
arrow-up1424arrow-down1imageThere's a person who is spam creating hundreds of communites with impossibly long descriptions on world, why haven't they been banned yet?Vamp to Lemmy.world Support • 11 months agomessage-square58
minus-squaredeliriumlink25•11 months agoI guess it’s achievable with hosting you’re using (with nginx ip block list for example if you’re using it)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink15•edit-211 months agoWhat you’re looking for is functionality like fail2ban, but probably with a filter set to the HTTP endpoint for creating communities. Not sure if it will work, I haven’t really looked into the Lemmy code/architecture yet.
minus-squareABeeinSpacelink12•11 months agoIf they’re using Cloudflare it can do this too. Even the free tier, you can have one monstrously long WAF rule to ban a bunch of IPs
I guess it’s achievable with hosting you’re using (with nginx ip block list for example if you’re using it)
What you’re looking for is functionality like fail2ban, but probably with a filter set to the HTTP endpoint for creating communities. Not sure if it will work, I haven’t really looked into the Lemmy code/architecture yet.
If they’re using Cloudflare it can do this too. Even the free tier, you can have one monstrously long WAF rule to ban a bunch of IPs