There have been a number of comment spam attacks in various posts in a couple of /c’s that I follow by a user/individual who uses account names like Thulean*

For example: ThuleanSneed@lemmy.tf in !coffee@lemmy.world

and ThuleanPerspective2@eviltoast.org in !anime@ani.social

edit: Also ThuleanSneed@startrek.website in !startrek@startrek.website

The posts have been removed or deleted by the respective /c’s mods, and the offending accounts banned, but you can see the traces of them in those /c’s modlogs.

The comments consist of an all-caps string of words with profanities, and Simpsons memes.

An attack on a post may consist of several repeated or similar looking comments.

This looks like a bored teenager prank, but it may also be an organization testing Lemmy’s systemic and collective defenses and ability to respond against spam and bot posts.

  • Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net
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    8 months ago

    What I really want to see is the ability to set a threshold for a server to reach before it will federate.

    Example: you have a server, you don’t allow others to federate unless those servers force captcha or approval of user registration

    • nutomic@lemmy.mlM
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      7 months ago

      The problem is that a server could very easily lie and claim to have captchas when it really doesnt.