Just a thought - has anyone done a trawl of outdated and/or inactive Mastodon instances to create a preemptive blocklist against spamming?
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Just a thought - has anyone done a trawl of outdated and/or inactive Mastodon instances to create a preemptive blocklist against spamming?
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@Gazimoff Yes, and instances that have server versions that are end of life/outdated, although, as of posting this, Codeberg is down for me right now so you can't review the code. Many instances use these scripts:
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Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:replied to Paul Chambers last edited by
@paul @Gazimoff
I've looked into it, but I ran into problems...1) it's not usually obvious whether or not a server is abandoned.
2) plenty of abandoned servers don't have spam issues, plenty of active servers do.
3) when you suspend a server, you lose all of the posts from that server, including the good faith ones from servers which used to be real, so you have to do something more complicated than just suspend.
4) most abandoned servers go down in a year at most because no one is paying the bills.
