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.
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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.
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.