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Closing registrations in Fedia.io due to spammers (fedia.io)

submitted 11 months ago by jerry@fedia.io to c/fedia@fedia.io

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Until I implement a better system to screen out spammers, I will be closing registrations on Fedia.io. That’s not what I want - I’d like for it to be available for legitimate accounts, but the spam is off the hook.

Anyone seeing this can send me an email (jerry@infosec.exchange) and I’ll get an account created for you in the mean time.

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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I know it's not ideal, but I fully understand the whole situation. Let's focus on making Mbin better for the existing users who are now experiencing CSRF or log-out problems. Hopefully after that, we can focus on improving anti-spam (since hcaptcha is not preventing any spam accounts for some unknown reason).

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Maybe even considering additional an optional question? With only 1 correct answer. Or maybe even enforce 2FA.. I dunno.. But spam is getting out of control. Coincidence due to the rise of LLMs? Who knows. But anti-spam like hCaptcha, even set to "difficult" doesn't seem to cut it anymore...

[–] jerry@fedia.io 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What works for me on both mastodon and Lemmy is a free text question: why do you want to join?

The user enters whatever they like and it goes into a moderation queue. Both lemmy and mastodon send me an email when a new account is ready to review.

I read the response and choose to whether to approve their account. At the moment, spammers are really bad at answering the “why do you want to join” questions.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 11 months ago

Makes sense as well.

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