• GarfGirl [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    39·
    10 months ago

    maybe the blahaj admins should just add like a brief questionaire on blahaj sign ups (at least temporarily) that need to be filled in and approved by the mods before someone can start posting here to make it harder for people to do this. maybe make it have questions like “why do you want to make an account on blahaj”, “how did you find out about blahaj”, “why did you choose your username” and “explain your views on lgbtq+ rights in two sentences or more”. It would make it way more inconvenient for spammers to repeatedly make new accounts, theyd have to come up with new answers each time, and it would make it so that spam attacks would be spread out and inneficient

    • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      16·
      10 months ago

      Replying just to say that I agree with this. I’m in queer Discord servers with an order of magnitude less users who have similar questionnaires. The one caveat is that those servers have moderators, as well as admins, going over those answers. I think Lemmy needs to add an ‘Instance Moderator’ role that’s able to deal with things like this without having backend access.

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      These accounts are being manually registered. Their goal isn’t mass registration to spam multiple places, but a few targeted registrations that then spam other instances and get us defederated. They are quite happy to answer questions and do whatever needed to slip through the cracks.

      Even manual account approval won’t stop them.

      What should be limiting their impact is the rate limit set in the Lemmy control panel, but it’s not working.