Does lemmy have a safeguard against ban evasion
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Reddit can detect ban evasion via IP addresses, but the fediverse is based on control of your information so IP is only held by instance you log into. Is there anyway any way to work with activity hub protocol to detect ban evasion?
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Lol nope.
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Instance admins can tell your IP and presumably browser info if they bother to collect that data.
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Like the comms would request from the instance your on for their email you used to register? Comms themselves could use email verification
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Lemmy doesn't log ips, and the access logs don't contain usernames or id's by default. You would need to modify things to record ips.
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Huh? Instances can't give out emails, that's a privacy violation.
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Apparently instances can share IP with each other but only for problematic ip addresses. It's not part of the protocol to give up address of the user
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Nginx and Lemmy both absolutely log IPs by default.
sudo journalctl -u lemmy -f.I assume that most admins of server big enough that they have to worry about abuse should check IPs to detect ban evasion, although you can get around it reliably by switching instances, and whether they actually do that or not would be a crapshoot, I think.
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Even if Lemmy could track IP addresses its so easy to use a VPN or proxy I doubt it would stop most dedicated ban evaders.
