More and more new accounts are posting spam and ads to communities (eg [email protected]), would it be an idea to block new accounts from posting to any p.d community?
More and more new accounts are posting spam and ads to communities (eg [email protected]), would it be an idea to block new accounts from posting to any p.d community?
That would massively hinder growth since actual users would get affected and then leave since they can’t actually use the platform
Probably better to set up some link blacklists and then add things to it based on what spammers are linking to
There was a 6 day old user (ruckusnetwork) on our instance yesterday that posted an ad on [email protected] yesterday. I banned and purged it ~2 hours after it was posted I think. We got about 6-8 reports in that time frame though.
Most spam accounts aren’t from us though, nor would it solve anything due to federation. It would just drive users to sign up on other instances with looser restrictions.