https://lemmy.world/u/LMAO

This user is creating lots of random communities (which are also featured on the homepage)

Edit: So far he has created over 2500 communities with random names.

Edit 2: Up to 4236 fake communities now

    • @FairLight
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      161 year ago

      It definitely sounds like a DoS / troll point, so it is good we realized this soon. Thank you for the proposal

      • at_an_angle
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        31 year ago

        I know next to nothing about coding, but manually opening communities to DoS seems like trying to fill up someone’s email inbox by sending someone thousands of emails with one word in it.

        • @FairLight
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          31 year ago

          I don’t know if it is possible, but I suspect there is an automated way to do it. Imagine you are using a client like thunder or liftoff. The “Create community” button is linked to an access point to the Lemmy API. If you know how to do it, you can DoS the instance. At the very least, you annoy the rest of the users.