I’m new to the fediverse, and so far, I have been seeing some situations from lemmy instances rejecting users to defederating from others, but I ask myself: what can be done if trolls or bots come from self-hosted single-user instances?

  • Gsus4@lemmy.one
    4·
    1 year ago

    They get defederated wherever they get consistently banned…and then they can federate with their friends and make their community of shit and yell at each other or something.

      • Gsus4@lemmy.one
        2·
        1 year ago

        Well, if we had a DDOS-like barrage of troll instances, probably a solution would be to institute a “pending federation request” for any new communities.

        • llama@midwest.social
          02·
          1 year ago

          This should be the default in the next Lemmy version because otherwise it’s only going to get easier for people to launch new instances and it’s going to get too overwhelming

      • tinwhiskers@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I believe there is a whitelist mode, that isn’t currently enabled but in that mode new instances are defederated by default. That would be a pain to administer for all the small instances joining, so they may set some size rules to apply for federation (??). I imagine this is inevitable if automated instance spamming becomes a problem, unless some type of RBL comes in vogue for managing federation first. It may become impossible to manage manually.

        • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
          1·
          1 year ago

          E: oh the white list thing may only be relevant to kbin federation, as that was the topic I saw it in. Sometimes I forget where I am :-/

          No, you were correct - Lemmy’s admin settings has an Allowed Instances setting, which acts as an allowlist for federation. If you put an instance (or more, separated by ,'s) then your instance will only federate with the ones specified in that list.