lemmy . doesnotexist . club is where all those Nicole pictures are linked from for some reason.
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
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what does defederated mean?
like trusted instance admins to block untrusted ones (like the ones in the post) from showing all content/interactions on the trusted instance so users dont interact with them - like server block?
Yep, exactly that. It's a little more complex, thus the different term (defederation), but from user-perspective it's exactly that: a server block.
Right now the second link returns errors. Probably that instance is down.
Men. Tough. I agree it shouldn't be allowed, but I can't find a shred of sympathy for Nazis.
The list of accounts is helpful. I’m going to copy+paste an idea that I had suggested elsewhere previously that someone with the means to achieve could set up to help fight these bot/astro-turf accounts:
There are some other ideas in that comment too, but this one is the most relevant.
The attacker is the admin of these two instances. Both instances have their registrations closed.
When I look, both have open registrations and don't even have a captcha? You see registrations as closed?
It could be that Fediseer is outdated. I looked at the instance's fediseer page.
https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/chinese.lol
https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.doesnotexist.club
Edit: Their registrations are indeed open. Perhaps they opened it just now?
Though it is also suspicious why the owner leaves the registrations open, requires no captcha, no approval nor any email confirmation, and the admin of lemmy.doesnotexist.club has been inactive since their account creation. Seems suspicious to me.
They have both had open registrations for at least several hours. I think perhaps there's something wrong with Fediseer's detection?
Given the issues, I'm guessing these instances have been open for some time. lemmy.doesnotexist.club has definitely had a few "Nicole" accounts and some trolls.
I checked the web archive. The registrations have been open since 2023. I think it's safe to assume that the admin is indeed the one behind this and possibly also behind the nicole spam. And it has been a year since these bot accounts were created and they are still being created, the admin does nothing, does not interact with anyone, but still hosts the instance.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230809200352/https://lemmy.doesnotexist.club
We desperately need some system to fight against these type of attacks. It is still not much of a problem. Creating bot accounts and then spamming the entire Fediverse isn't hard but defending against it will be in the future.
Why do you assume the admin is behind it? If you have an instance that has open registrations and no captcha, then bots will take advantage of that. It doesn't mean the admin is the one doing the attacks.
In fact, such instances are more common than they should be since open registrations with no captcha is the default configuration, last I checked 😑
.lol
This highlights one of the things that I saw as a benefit when I started on kbin: being able to see who the downvote fairies were. I know the discussion has been done to death on the Lemmy side, but as a user I found it interesting to be able to see this kind of info. For example, instead of just block/reporting the spammer, I could block their sock puppets that upvoted as well. (And did kbin.social have a lot of that towards the end. Oof.)
Thanks for digging into this.
I never realized that was a kbin only thing. I just assumed my instance/mbin blocked that feature.
Lemmy currently allows mods to see downvotes, so they can fight brigading on top of admins
You mean admins, right? I cannot see downvotes on the community I mod.
Use https://tesseract.dubvee.org/
What it does look like (there were no downvotes here, but they would appear as well)
How do I use this for different instances? I'm thinking of starting an instance. Is tesseract good for any instance or just dubvee?
It can connect to any instance
That’s pretty neat to have as a mod. But I don’t think it should be readily available for any average Joe.
Sometimes people are looking for anything to get angry about, myself included. And I really don’t want to get into a slap fight with someone whose dick pic I downvoted.
The data itself is public, clients just don't show it. Imo clients should add that capability, the lack of privacy is better than the illusion of privacy.
It's not exactly public, IIRC? Like, admins/mods have access, so it's not private by any means, but I wouldn't really call it public.
Anyone can set up a server, make themselves an admin, and federate with other servers. That's what makes it decentralized.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967
Due to the way federation works, it is public. Anyone could spin up an instance and make a tool to make votes public.
That's what I meant by admins/mods, thus I still think my point is still valid: not private, but not exactly public.
I think it would be better to make it clear that people's votes can be seen by anyone with a little technical skill, better than hiding that fact.
Indeed, which is why it's limited to mods
Visibility is a good thing.
There is some interesting area here, like a personalized vote score, based on others who vote similar to you, giving them more weight then people you never agree with.
net-net I think open votes make for better neighbors.
PieFed has some interesting thoughts along these lines.
I actively expect to never see such a thing in Lemmy though.
Great work. It doesn’t matter who the target is this time (pretty sure I blocked them every time they popped up with a new account). This kind of shit should not be tolerated at all.
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