Hey everyone, you may have noticed that some of ushave been raising alarms about the amount of spam accounts being created on insufficiently protected instances.
As I wanted to get ahead of this before we’re shoulders deep in spam, I developed a small service which can be used to parse the Lemmy Fediverse Observer and retrieve instances which are suspicious enough to block.
The Overseer provides fully documented REST API which you can use to retrieve the instances in 3 different formats. One with all the info, one with just the names, and one as a csv you can copy-paste into your defederation setting. You can even adjust the level of suspicion you want to have.
Not only that, I also developed a python script which you can edit and run and it will automatically update your defederation list. You can set that baby to run on a daily schedule and it will take care that any new suspicious instances are also caught and any servers that cleared up their spam accounts will be recovered.
I plan to improve this service further. Feel free to send me ideas and PRs.
Then maybe I got confused sorry. Somebody mentioned it and then the post was saying it’s a service I thought it wasn’t open. Will check it properly later. Shouldn’t have spoke so quickly I guess
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Thanks for the awesome work! I love seeing the OSS community building tooling for this stuff :D
However it does not look like it is open source.
Isn’t it? I had to go to the Python script and go up to find the main repo https://github.com/db0/lemmy-overseer
It’s also possible I’m missing something lol
Then maybe I got confused sorry. Somebody mentioned it and then the post was saying it’s a service I thought it wasn’t open. Will check it properly later. Shouldn’t have spoke so quickly I guess
yea my bad, it looks open source :D
It’s all good :) I had to dig a little myself to find it haha