I have reconsidered this and will no longer be unlisting lemmy instances with large number of spam signups.

Instead I'd like to explore a way to label potential spam instances in a way that doesn't exclude instances.

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Slade Rice Watkins

@dansup maybe a flag of some kind that can sit near the instance name or something?

like “Suspected Spam” or “Potential Spam”?

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Sebastian Lauwers

@dansup Not many people have their ego sufficiently in check to be able to publicly say “this idea I had was the wrong one”. Good job.

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Alan Miller :verified_paw:

@dansup perhaps some kind of instance reputation? Been in use for years for mail servers so a lot of problems have likely been addressed already.

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maegul

@dansup is bet a simple statistical approach could go a long way.

MAU/total user ratio would reveal a lot of the outliers I suspect. Especially if there are quick changes to this ratio over a day or week or so.

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