Our local instance is getting absolutely bombarded with spam. Ugh. Can someone else us out? Trying to play whack-a-mole with banning instances but is there a better option?
@alex I don’t know as not an admin. Have been reading how other instances are dealing with this attack. Ask @FediTips as they are pretty much on the ball for all this stuff and have been posting advice for everyone.
If the spam is coming from other instances, one option is "limited federation" mode which uses allowlists instead of blocklists. However, this will also greatly restrict which accounts can follow and interact with people on your server. (More info: https://fedi.tips/creating-an-isolated-server/)
Another option is to import ready-made blocklists if you aren't already (https://fedi.tips/importing-ready-made-server-blocklists-on-mastodon/), but this may not line up with instances that are hosting spammers because it seems a lot of the problems are with otherwise well moderated instances that have open signups instead of approval signups.
It's the open signups on other instances that seems to be the problem. If everyone had approval mode on, spammers would find it much harder to exploit smaller instances.
@FediTips@harriettmb yeah, we're importing other block lists. but a lot of spam is coming from smaller instances. we haven't had our signups open for quite a while.