That’s what I’m afraid of. Once some bad actors realize Lemmy is as defenseless as it is, it’ll be carnage for a while. The only tool we have is defederation and it’s slow and borderline useless against spam or worse.
anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Seems relatively painless to chop those two instances off - chinese.lol has less than 200 users, and I can’t even find instance info for doesnotexist.club (coincidence? i think NOT).
I do personally wonder how difficult it is to spin up new instances though. How much effort would it be for them to create a new one and do it again?
I’m actually most concerned with the IP leaking of the fediverse chick posts - hopefully some progress has been made with the IP leaking in auto-loaded external media through DM’s
Randelung@lemmy.world 11 months ago
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 11 months ago
I’m actually most concerned with the IP leaking
I’m curious, what is it about IP leaking that concerns you? I’ve been thinking about it lately but I have a hard time seeing why it’s a problem.
nailbar@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
For one, you now know there is someone on the other end, so you can target your attacks instead of trying random ips.
trillnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
fairly low effort but annoying like one click with yunohost
qaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I checked the images and so far every image I’ve encountered linked to the users’s lemmy instance’s pictrs instance.
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 11 months ago
Some instances enable the image proxy, which should prevent this.
Admin@startrek.website 11 months ago
Minimal, but it is the domain that gets blocked so the attacker would still need to purchase a new domain.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 11 months ago
Not with sub domains.