Thanks for the context.
Your the request/intent to join link doesn't appear to go where it should be.
Email has been doing the "whack-a-mole" battle with spammers for a long time and have tools like https://www.spamhaus.org/blocklists/ to quickly block the latest bad actor.
The Fediverse will likely need to do something similar in identifying and quickly blocking bad actors.
# create an empty directory to work in to avoid clutter
# suggest running this to create a directory for today's date:
DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`; mkdir $DATE; cd $DATE
# loop through list of lemmy servers to download json files of blocked instances
# and extract the blocked domains to a txt file
for site in lemmy.ca lemmy.ml lemmy.world lemmy.zip sh.itjust.works
do
echo $site
site_base_fname=`echo $site | tr \. _`
curl -s --request GET \
--url https://$site/api/v3/federated_instances?kind=blocked \
--header 'accept: application/json' > blocked_${site_base_fname}.json
cat blocked_${site_base_fname}.json | jq -r '.federated_instances.blocked.[].domain' | sort -u > blocked_${site_base_fname}.txt
done
# number of common blocked instances for both lemmy.ca and sh.itjust.works
comm -1 -2 blocked_lemmy_ca.txt blocked_sh_itjust_works.txt | wc
# instances only blocked on lemmy.ca but not on sh.itjust.works
comm -2 -3 blocked_lemmy_ca.txt blocked_sh_itjust_works.txt > only_blocked_for_lemmy_ca.txt
# instances only blocked on sh.itjust.works but not on lemmy.ca
comm -1 -3 blocked_lemmy_ca.txt blocked_sh_itjust_works.txt > only_blocked_for_sh_itjust_works.txt
# instances blocked across at least two lemmy servers
# h/t DDG Search Assist AI
awk '{instances[$0]++} END { for (instance in instances) {if(instances[instance]>1) {print instances[instance], instance }}}' blocked*.txt | sort -k1,1nr -k2,2
# instances blocked on at least one lemmy server
awk '{instances[$0]++} END { for (instance in instances) { print instances[instance], instance }}' blocked*.txt | sort -k1,1nr -k2,2
9kb.me
aethy.com
archaeology.social
beehaw.org
besties.com
bigballchunkyverse.online
bondsdogs.com
botsin.space
bunnyanarchy.org
channels.im
cherryberry.pink
cryptodon.lol
cum.salon
cunnyborea.top
dubvee.org
eda.social
educhat.social
forum-lucifer.com
fun.with.kyun.li
groupsebelah.com
h5q.net
imouto.pics
jenny.nya.pub
kbin.burggit.moe
kernkraft.social
kids.0px.io
kitsui.life
kokuusa.club
kommunismus.social
lawsocial.org
lemmy.byrdcrouse.com
lemmy.fediverse.jp
lemmy.nebtown.info
lemmy.staphup.nl
lolison.top
m.corduba.tech
masost.one
mastadon.astuto.cc
mastodon-ero.xyz
mastodon.integrata-stiftung.de
mastodon.snmsoc.org
mastodon.svgun.ru
mentalhealth-masto.com
mirr0r.city
misskey.doujin.games
mitra.anon-kenkai.com
moar.cachapa.xyz
mstdn.business
mstdn.jp
nasface.cz
neuroscience-mastodon.com
niederbayern.social
nnia.space
owo.town
pedo.school
posting.lolicon.rocks
puls.social
red.computersforpeace.net
redlemmy.com
scfzfilm.org
seda.social
sfw.community
shota.house
social.cutefunny.net
social.tcpcat.net
startrekshitposting.com
tambayan.us
thoughtful.social
transforthe.win
waterlily.tokyo
youjo.love
alien.top
annihilation.social
api.clubsall.com
baomi.tv
bbs.9tail.net
bbs.darkwitch.net
bolha.social
clatter.eu
clubsall-api.appcafe.workers.dev
clubsall-api.renchesterjramos.workers.dev
clubsall-api2.appcafe.workers.dev
clubsall-api2.renchesterjramos.workers.dev
clubsall-api3.renchesterjramos.workers.dev
clubsall-api4.renchesterjramos.workers.dev
clubsall.com
cubing.social
cum.estate
cunnyborea.space
decayable.ink
demotheque.com
detroitriotcity.com
dot.surf
enterprise.lemmy.ml
eveningzoo.club
fasheng.ing
freeatlantis.com
freespeechextremist.com
gameliberty.club
granitestate.social
http://api.clubsall.com/
lemmit.online
lemmy-mormonsatan-u23030.vm.elestio.app
lemmy.almostadatacenter.social
lemmy.cloudsecurityofficehours.com
lemmy.easfrq.live
lemmy.fedi.bub.org
lemmy.fyi
lemmy.jtmn.dev
lemmy.org
lemmy.podycust.co.uk
lemmy.primboard.de
lemmy.shwizard.chat
lemmy.tedomum.net
mindshare.space
news.deghg.org
nicecrew.digital
nightshift.social
noauthority.social
oceanbreeze.earth
poa.st
pravda.me
rebased.social
rebelbase.site
shitposter.world
thediscussion.site
tummy.town
ussr.win
veenk.help
voyager.lemmy.ml
wolfballs.com
wumbo.buzz
I posted https://lemmy.ca/post/69414850 in the main community about whether to unblock lemmit.online and the comments are mostly negative.
Was a little journey of exploration as while most peer lemmy servers don't block that instance many of them have banned the bot@lemmit.online user based on lack of recent posts.
Thanks for the information!
Need to be an admin on a lemmy server to view the banned users using the lemmy API:
https://lemmy.ca/api/v3/user/banned
https://lemmy.zip/api/v3/user/banned
Looking at https://lemmy.zip/u/bot@lemmit.online I see the last post was 10 months ago so it looks like it was banned around then.
So instead of just looking at whether the lemmit.online instance is/isn't blocked but looking if there are recent posts from bot@lemmit.online across the top 10 lemmy servers I see:
lemmy.world ❌
lemmy.ml ❌
sh.itjust.works ❌
lemmy.dbzer0.com ✅
lemmy.ca ❌
programming.dev ✅
lemmy.zip ❌
lemmy.blahaj.zone ❓
ttrpg.network ✅
lemmy.one ✅
That article was painful to read about some people's lack of critical thinking skills. There exist people who believe only Donald Trump can save them from the Epstein class of global elites!!?? 🤯
When the separatist leaders were meeting (plotting) with the American State Department in a SCIF didn't they say they would get $500 Billion if Alberta became independent? And then in the future if an independent Alberta would join the USA it would make more sense for Alberta to become an American Territory rather than a State?
So their end goal is to become a future Norte Rico.
Here's a suggested starting point for contents:
lemmy.ca blocks instances at a sitewide basis due to them having inappropriate content. The list of blocked instances can be viewed at:
Discussion about blocked instances of note:
The BC Provincial government has declared a province wide state of emergency:
https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7300648
B.C. Premier David Eby says the entire province is now under a state of emergency as crews grapple with dozens of out-of-control wildfires that have forced thousands of people to evacuate.
Funny coincidence in timing, I lurk in the onguardforthee subreddit and was just searching to see if it existed on lemmy.ca.
Let's see how this goes. 🤞
There's a lot of emotional hot wind coming from the USA. Canada is responding with a cool non-emotional breeze using facts and figures.
Ah cool, I wasn't aware of dbzero’s Fediseer. Looks like a good way to identify problematic instances to block.
I'm just an end user of lemmy trying to use it more and went down a rabbit hole about blocked instances when I came across something that impacted me.