This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.
Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.
Could you please create a middle ground between the nuclear option (banning sites) and the whack a mole option of banning users. It would be effective to be able to ban communities (at least temporarily) during bot spam attacks while you wait for admins to police up their site. Could there also be a way for admins to notify other admins that their site is spamming garbage so that admins know that their board is the cause of a problem and what that problem is?
We can’t ban communities, because they aren’t people and don’t do actions. iirc there is a proposalto “temp-block” sites in the same way admins can “temp-ban” users, but we haven’t been working on it.
Lemmy’s bot problems used to be muuuch worse than they are now, and I encourage most instances to use the registration application method of signups, which has been time-tested by older forum software, and which we’ve found to work the best for blocking bots.
As far as admins notifying others, we don’t want to reinvent the wheel by creating a chatroom in lemmy, so we recommend admins / mods use matrix or something else to communicate with each other about these things.
As an admin you can remove a remote community, then it shouldnt federate anymore. Though admittedly this isnt very intuitive.