Gotta say, I'm loving the transparency in the fediverse
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I've managed to create an entire career (almost 10 years in now) out of the transparency in the tech community. Especially in open source. I'm hoping that paying it back like this inspires and provides the same opportunity to others!
I wonder how long it took to create those communities. one dude wasted so much time just to have all their work wiped out by a script.
I wonder how long it took to create those communities.
.. about as long as it took LMAO to write a script to do it, at a guess.
Depending on how easy the API is to use, that might be done in a couple of minutes
Is it a coincidence or is that the same person that was attacking lemmy a few weeks back for revenge on getting booted?
Edit: yup it is.
Mental illness is a helluva thing
This is great work. I assume LMAO was the same guy as Angled - it'll be an 1.7K communities nixed if the script is used for him (so, 19% of the total!)
Yup, that's the guy, says so in the profile bio.
Now that's some beautiful python code. Good work.
So we're going to need a captcha on community creation now? It's not the worst idea.
Some per-session rate-limiting by a HTTP reverse proxy could go a long way. Should any user be able to create a community via the API more than, say, once every 10 seconds? I'm not familiar with the rate limiting already built in to the Lemmy server, though.
Great news, thanks for the help!
You should let him get to like 20k communities then run this.
Should probably put in a check for if the community has any content or not tbh. Low chance, but still an edge case.
Why does this douche cannon deserve to have a community?
The ownership could be changed rather than deleting it entirely in this case.