LiveLM@lemmy.zip to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 3 days agoHot rules in your arealemmy.zipimagemessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1474arrow-down17
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minus-squareyetAnotherUserlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 days agoOne defense could be for an instance admin to set a maximum number of messages someone can send to different accounts on their instance per hour. This would be a heuristic approach to combat spam but this function would first have to be implemented by the Lemmy developers.
minus-squareSwednecklinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agohonestly it always astounds me that developers don’t pre-emptively add ratelimiting, it’s such a basic thing to prevent misuse
One defense could be for an instance admin to set a maximum number of messages someone can send to different accounts on their instance per hour.
This would be a heuristic approach to combat spam but this function would first have to be implemented by the Lemmy developers.
honestly it always astounds me that developers don’t pre-emptively add ratelimiting, it’s such a basic thing to prevent misuse