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There's a person who is spam creating hundreds of communites with impossibly long descriptions on world, why haven't they been banned yet? (lemmy.world)

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I guess it's achievable with hosting you're using (with nginx ip block list for example if you're using it)

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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

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