• yetAnotherUser
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      2 days ago

      honestly it always astounds me that developers don’t pre-emptively add ratelimiting, it’s such a basic thing to prevent misuse