• yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    2 months ago

    One defense could be for an instance admin to set a maximum number of messages someone can send to different accounts on their instance per hour.

    This would be a heuristic approach to combat spam but this function would first have to be implemented by the Lemmy developers.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      2 months ago

      honestly it always astounds me that developers don’t pre-emptively add ratelimiting, it’s such a basic thing to prevent misuse